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By JAMES E. SCRIPPS. 



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PREFACE. 



In 1891. the centennial year of the immigration of the Scripps 
family to America, I published a volume of Memorials, which 
was designed rather to preserve in enduring print a quantity of 
historical matter which then existed only in scattered manu- 
scripts than to formulate a complete genealogical history of the 
family. This the present volume, a memorial of the one hun- 
dredth anniversary of the birth of my revered father, is intended 
more particularly to supply. 

I believe the volume to contain a complete record of the 
descendants of Robert Scripps, who died in Ely in 1729. While 
the pedigree can be traced two generations further back, com- 
pleteness in the record wa? only possible by beginning with this 
Robert. 

Of the direct descendants of Robert Scripps this volume 
contains the names of 418. Of these, 273 are living — an increase 
of 47 within the past, twelve years. Of these 273 there are 162 
living in the United States and 111 in England, South Africa, 
South America, India and Japan. It is noteworthy that while 
the representatives of the family in America have increased in 
number only 19.1 per cent in the past twelve years, the increase 
elsewhere has been 23.3 per cent. 

In foot notes the pedigrees of all who have married into the 
family have been given, so far as obtainable. In some cases 



IV PREFACE. 

these will be found of exceedingly great interest. I must own 
to considerable surprise at the large number of eminent men who 
have borne relationship of some kind with one branch or another 
of the Scripps family or its alliances. 

The notable facts concerning every member of the family are 
given where in their characters or achievements anything notable 
is known. It cannot fail to be noticed how large a part the 
family have borne, in a modest way, in the history of the past 
century and a half, and particularly in the development of our 
own western country. 

A directory of the names, places of residence and occupation 
of all living members of the family will be found in the later 
pages of the book. 

Blank pages are provided at the end of the volume for the 
continuation of the record in manuscript. I trust they will be 
used, and urgently request that transcripts of all such additional 
records be sent to me for the perfecting from time to time of 
my own copy. 

Where so many members of the family have interested them- 
selves to aid me with information, it would be invidious to single 
out .any for special acknowledgments. My sincere thanks are 
due to all who have in any way aided me in the work. 

For the material for the genealogical tables of the Warren 
and Jackson families I am mainly indebted to the admirable 
history of those families compiled by Mrs. Betsey Warren Davis 
of Philadelphia. 

JAMES E. SCRIPPS. 

Detroit, September 9, 1903. 



GENEALOGY OF THE SCRIPPS FAMILY. 



The Scripps family, at the earliest period of which we 
have knowledge of it, was domiciled at Ely, in Cambridge- 
shire, England. The earliest date at which the name is 
found in the parish registers of the city is January 16, 
1619-20, when Amy Crips, an infant, was buried. Then 
there are no other registries until 1630, from which year 
down to 1758 thej 7 are very numerous. In the nine 
earliest registries the name is spelled Crips or Cripps, the 
initial S being first found in 1634, when in the record of 
a baptism the name is first written Crips and afterwards 
altered to Scrips. The identity of the names is quite 
apparent. 

The earliest clearly-made-out progenitor of the family 
was one Thomas Scripps. Throughout the registers the 
name is almost invariably spelled by the parish clerk with 
a single p, though it is certain that the family themselves 
spelled it as we still do. This Thomas Scripps was married 
to Agnes or Anne Finch on January 21, 1630. Their 
children were as follows : 

Baptised. 

William Scripps Oct. 31, 1630. 

Thomas Scripps Oct. 21, 1632. 

William Scripps Mar. 30, 1634. 

John Scripps Feb. 21, 1636. 

Joan Scripps Jan. 28, 1638. 

Robert Scripps May 16, 1641. 

On October 27, 1650, Anne Scripps, wife of Thomas, 
was buried, and on December 16, 1651, Thomas Scripps 
was married to Elizabeth Atkin. There seems to have 
been no issue by this marriage. This Thomas Scripps 
probably had a brother William, for a William Scripps 



GENEALOGY OF THE 



was married to Joan Fox on January 16, 1638. This 
may explain Thomas's daughter born about the same 
time being named Joan. It is probable that this was a 
second marriage of William's, for there had been children 
of a William Scripps baptised in 1631, 1634 and 1637. 
But none of William's posterity seem to have survived. 
He probably died before 1645, for on May 14 of that year 
Joan Scripps was married to William Riches. 

SECOND GENERATION. 

Of the children of Thomas Scripps, William was 
married to Anne Say re on October 28, 1655, Thomas to 
Jane Boston October 18. 1657, and Robert to Elizabeth 
Sargison January 26, 1668. This was in Robert's case 
probably a second marriage, for an Elizabeth Scripps, 
wife of Robert, had been buried on September 30, 1664. 
William and Anne Scripps had four children — three girls 
and one boy. They probably all died in childhood. There 
is no record of any children to Thomas and Jane Scripps, 
though between 1657 and 1674 there are records of the 
burial of live infant Scrippses, the parents of whom are 
not specified on the parish registers. 

Robert and Elizabeth Scripps had two sons, both of 
whom died in childhood, and the mother herself was 
buried on the same dav that her youngest child was 
baptised, December 23, 1669. On May 2, 1671, Robert 
married Mary Westfield. The Westfields were probably 
a family of local consideration, for in 1673, when taxes 
were assessed on hearths, Mark Westfield paid on three 
hearths, while the bishop's palace only boasted seven. 
There is reason to believe. that Robert Scripps followed the 
honorable trade of house carpenter. He seems to have 
been in comfortable circumstances, for he owned at least 
six pieces of land in and about Ely, including four acres 
in Padnall and six acres in Cawdle Fen. In 1679 he 
bought a place in Ely, near the stone bridge, of Archdeacon 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 7 

Palmer. By his wife Mary, Robert Scripps had children 
as follows : 

Baptised. Buried. 

Anne Scripps May 27, 1672. Aug. 18, 1672. 

Mary Scripps Aug. 30, 1673. 

Anne Scripps Feb. 24, 1681. 

Thomas Scripps April 6, 1684. 

William Scripps Jan. 23, 1688. 

Robert Scripps (baptism not recorded.) 

It is probable that there were other children, between 
Mary and the second Anne, who died in infancy. Robert, 
the father, was buried January 31, 1700, and Mary, his 
widow, on February 13, 1712. 

The three sons above mentioned reached adult years. 
Thomas married Mary Simpson on June 28, 1703, and 
had a large family by her, all of whom died young. She 
was buried May 4, 1736, and he on September 22, 1741. 

William, the second son of Robert and Mary Scripps, 
left Ely while still a young man, and was lost sight of by 
his family. In 1892 a family bearing the name of Scripps 
was discovered in Barkway, Herts., whither they had 
removed from Braughing and Omead, in the same county. 
It is probable that they are the descendants of this William 
Scripps. The parish registers of Barkway show a William 
Scrip to have been buried there on February 25, 1758. 
If this was the William, son of Robert and Mary Scripps, 
he would have been about 70 years old at the time of his 
death. 

THIRD GENERATION. 

There is no record of the baptism of Robert Scripps in 
the Ely registers, but in Mary Scripps's will, registered at 
Peterborough, he is alluded to as her youngest son. He 
was probably not of full age at the time of the making 
of the will in 1710, for he could hardly have been born 
earlier than 1690. He is made joint executor with his 
absent brother William, and sole executor in case of 
William's non-return. On April 13, 1718, Robert was 



8 GENEALOGY OF THE 

married to Sarah Plowright, daughter of John, and prob- 
able granddaughter of Simon Plowright, John Plowright 
died in 1722. She had two brothers, Thomas and John. 
The Plowrights, father and sons, were all carpenters, as 
was also Robert Scripps. They owned property in Ely, 
and in 1673 Simon Plowright was taxed for two hearths, 
implying comfortable circumstances. 

Robert and Sarah Scripps's children were as follows: 3 

Baptised. Buried. 

2. Thomas Scripps . . . Nov. 6, 1720. May 22, 1722. 

3. Sarah Scripps Jan. 14, 1722 Jan. 17, 1722. 

4. William Scripps . . . Sept. 6, 1724. 

5. Mary Scripps Jan. 4, 1726. 

There were also five other children buried between 
1723 and 1728 who were probably theirs, viz.: John, 
April 15, 1723; Thomas, April 21, 1723 (probably twins); 
Anne and Mary (probably also twins), February 9, 1728, 
and James, September 3, 1727. The probability is that 
of a family of nine children all but one, William, died in 
infancy. From the fact of Robert Scripps losing two 
pieces of property by mortgage foreclosure, as appears by 
the manor rolls, it is to be inferred that he was not a suc- 
cessful business man. Sarah Scripps was buried at Ely, 
May 3, 1729, and her husband on the 20th of the same 
month. 

FOURTH GENERATION. 

4. William Scripps, son of Robert and Sarah, baptised 
at Ely, September 6, 1724. He was but four and a half 
years old at the time of his parents' death, and was probably 
brought up by his uncle, Thomas Plowright, who appears 
to have been childless. He inherited the property of both 

1. I have begun the consecutive numbering of members of the family 
with the second Robert Scripps, because, of his descendants it is 
possible to make a complete record. It will be observed that I might 
have begun two generations earlier, but it would have been at the 
expense of completeness. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 9 

his mother's brothers at their death. He followed the 
carpenter's trade, and appears to have been foreman or 
superintendent for all the work required by the cathedral 
authorities at Ely. "When the dome and lantern of the 
cathedral were restored, between the years 1757 and 1762, 
he had charge of the work. There is a family tradition 
that, having* a dispute with the Dean and Chapter regard- 
ing some payments, he refused to take down the scaffolding 
employed in the work until his claims were adjusted, and 
so ingeniously was it constructed that they were unable 
to find anyone else who could remove it, and so were 
compelled to yield to his demands. This does not, however, 
seem to have made any difference with his relations with 
the cathedral authorities, for as late as 1769 we find, by 
bills rendered to the Dean and Chapter, that he was still 
engaged upon work for them. He is said to have been a 
very superior mechanic, but given to jollity and perhaps 
dissipation. On the south wall of Bishop Alcock's chapel, 
at the eastern extremity of the north aisle of Ely Cathe- 
dral, the name "W. Scripps, Anno Dom. 1763"' may be 
read, scratched with a sharp instrument. He removed to 
London, and died there, some time between 1773 and 1780. 
He married, February 24, 1746, Susannah Chapman, 
whom I take to have been a daughter of Giles Chapman 
and granddaughter of Robert Chapman. The registers 
show the baptism of six children of William and Susannah 
Scripps, as follows : 

Baptised. Buried. 

6. Sarah Scripps Feb. 12, 1747. 

7. William Scripps April 6, 1749. 

8. Mary Scripps Feb. 16, 1751. Feb. 23, 1751. 

9. Mary Scripps May 13, 1753 

10. John Plowright Scripps.. Sept. 1, 1755. Sept. 7, 175"=:. 

11. Anne Scripps May 15, 1757. 

Then in 1758 Susannah Scripps died, and was buried 
on June 25. Of their six children, only William and one 
of the sisters, Mary, seem to have reached maturity, though 
there is no record of the burial of the others, except as 



IO GENEALOGY OF THE 

given above. This sister subsequently married John Pear, 
a master shoemaker of London. Mary Pear died in 
Westminster June 26, 1828, at the age of 75, and is buried 
in St. Margaret's churchyard. She appears to have left 
no children. 

FIFTH GENERATION. 

7. William Scripps, son of William and Susannah 
Scripps, Avas born in Ely, March 20, 1749, O. S., and wts 
baptised in Trinity Church in that city on April 6 of the 
same year. He was nine years old when his mother died. 
He was taught his father's trade, but was injured, probably 
in some street brawl, and spent several years on crutches. 
In search of a cure he Avent to London, Avhere in 1771 he 
married Grace, daughter of Joseph and Mary Locke, a 
great-great-granddaughter of Anthony Pearson, 2 a Quaker 
of prominence during the period of the CommonAvealth. 
William Scripps embarked in the shoemaking business, and 
employed a large number of men, but he was unsuccessful, 
and on May 1, 1701, sailed Avith his family, except his 

2. Anthony Pearson was born in the county of Durham, according 
to the Dictionary of National Biography, in 162S, but there is reason to 
believe at an earlier date. He was trained to the law, and was clerk 
and registrar to the parliamentary committee for compounding from 
its first appointment in 1649. In February, 1651-2, he was appointed 
sequestration commissioner for Durham. Upon the sale of the bishops' 
lands, he became a large purchaser of estates in Cumberland and Nor- 
thumberland. Appointed a justice of the peace for three counties, he 
sat at the trial of the Quaker James Naylor, at Appleby, in Westmore- 
land, in 1652, and soon after became himself a convert to Quakerism. 
In October, 1653, he memorialized parliament in behalf of the Quakers, 
who were unjustly persecuted. In May, 1655, he delivered to Oliver 
Cromwell, in a personal interview, a memorial setting forth the con- 
dition of the Quakers confined in the various prisons of England, 
which, in connection with Thomas Aldam, he had personally collected. 
He is said to have been the first of this sect to preach in London. In 
1657 he published his masterly work entitled The Great Case of Tithes, 
of which editions were reprinted in 1658, 1659, 1730, 1754, 1762, and finally 
as recently as 1862. At the restoration Pearson was arrested and nar- 
rowly escaped prosecution for treason. Probably to save himself, he 
renounced Quakerism and surrendered the confiscated estates he had 



SCRIPPS FAMILY II 

eldest son, for America. He came over in the brig 
Minerva, commanded by Capt. Porter, father of Commo- 
dore David Porter, and grandfather of Admiral David D. 
Porter, U. S. N., and landed in Baltimore early in July. 
In October he settled in Alexandria, Va., where he 
resumed the shoemaking business and opened a general 
store. A year later he bought a large tract of land near 
Morgantown, West Va., without seeing it, and as it turned 
out was badly swindled. In the autumn of 1792 he 
removed to this property, his effects being conveyed in 
three wagons, each drawn by four or six horses, and his 
wife riding a horse, named Chevalier, which had carried 
Gen. Washington through the War of the Revolution, but 
which was now superannuated and suited only to a woman's 
riding. Besides his own family, William Scripps took 
with him a number of mechanics and others, intending to 
found a colony on his estate. Three weeks were required 
for the journey of 250 miles through the wilderness, and 

purchased. He then became a friend and protege of John Cosin, Bishop 
of Durham. In 1663-4 he was employed in Scotland by the government, 
and at the time of his death was Under Sheriff for Durham. He was 
married before his conversion to Quakerism. He died in January, 1665, 
himself and children being reconciled to the Church of England, but 
his wife remaining a member of the Society of Friends. 
The descent from Anthony Pearson I deduce as follows: 

Anthony Pearson, 
d. 1665. I 

Joanna Pearson==John Major, 

of Bridlington, Yorkshire, 
d. about 1690, aged 65. 
Joanna Major==William Topcliffe. 
m. 1674. I 

Mary Topcliffe==Joseph Locke. 

Grace Locke==William Scripps, 
b. 1750, b. 1749, 

d. 1811. d. 1823. 

It is not improbable that another generation should intervene 
between William and Joanna Topcliffe and Joseph and Mary Locke. It 
is known that William and Joanna had a son, William Topcliffe, born 
in 1683, and it is probable that he was the father of the Mary Topcliffe 
who married Joseph Locke. 

The John Major who married Joanna Pearson was grandfather to 



12 GENEALOGY OF THE 

Morgantown was reached early in December. 3 Here, dis- 
appointed, he resided in poor circumstances until May, 
1809, when at the instance of his sons he removed to Cape 
Girardeau, Mo. There his wife, Grace, died on July 17, 
1811, and he on November 8, 1823, both being buried in 
the little cemetery of Cape Girardeau, on the bluffs over- 
looking the Mississippi. 

"William Scripps was a man of intelligence, information 
and refinement, and an extensive reader. He was short in 
stature, of active, bustling manner, and greatly given to 
jocularity. His later years were spent as cutter in a shoe 
shop carried on by one of his sons. His wife, Grace, was 
a lady of culture and refinement and considerable pride. 
That they must have possessed sterling qualities is proven 
by the characters and successful careers of their three sons. 
In the great religious revivals which characterized the 
opening years of the nineteenth century the whole family 
became zealous Methodists. 

Sir John Major, of Worlingworth Hall, Suffolk. The latter was an 
Elder Brother of Trinity House from 1741 till his death in 1781. He was 
High Sheriff of Sussex in 1755, sat in Parliament for Scarborough in 
1761, and was made a Baronet in 17C5. He was a director of the South 
Sea House and a governor of Greenwich Hospital. His two daughters 
married respectively Sir John Henniker and Henry Bridges, Duke of 
Chandos, both daughters being first cousins to Mary Topcliffe. 

There is a monumental brass to a Topclyffe in Topcliffe parish 
church in Yorkshire. The brass is of the 14th century and is cut on 
the reverse of an older Flemish brass, as was the custom of those 
times. The figure is life size, and is of a man in armor. A fac-simile 
appears in Waller's Series of Monumental Brasses in England (1863). 

Joseph Locke held himself to be of the same ancestry with John 
Locke, the author of the Essay on Human Understanding, but the 
relationship cannot be traced. In early life Joseph Locke followed the 
sea, probably commanding a Bridlington, Yorkshire, vessel, that place 
being the home of the Topcliffes. 

3. Hon. John Marshall Hagans, circuit judge for Monongalia county, 
West Va., writes me from Morgantown: 

"Our record books show that William Scripps was given letters of 
attorney by one John McGuire, who designates the said William as his 
'trusty friend,' to convey half of 770 acres of land on Wickware's creek 
to one Dr. Thomas Bond. This is dated 1793. From the language of 
this instrument it would seem that McGuire had fallen into the toils of 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 13 

William and Grace Scripps were parents of about 19 
children, as follows : 

12. William Armigor Scripps, born July 21, 1772. 

13. Joseph Locke Scripps, date of birth lost; died at 4% years. 

14. Benjamin Scripps, born May 15, 1779. 

15-22. Eight other children between 1773 and 1784, who died 
in infancy. 

23. John Scripps, born August 26, 1785. 

24. Anne Scripps, born Jan. 10, 1787. 

25. Sarah Scripps, born Feb. 12, 1788. 

26. Sarah Scripps, born March, 1789; died in Morgantown, 
Sept., 1793. 

27. George Henry Scripps, born May 16, 1790. 

28. Mary Scripps, born May, 1792, at Alexandria; died there 
in August. 

29. Camilla Scripps, born near Morgantown, June, 1791; 
died July, 1794. 

30. A still-born infant, born 1796. 

A Milly Scripps, reported in one record to have been 
born in 1793, is (probably identical with Camilla. 

the land pirate, as your ancestor seems to have done, for it sets forth 
that Dr. Bond agreed to pay McGuire back his money if the land were 
reconveyed, for which purpose these letters of attorney were executed. 
Dr. Bond is buried here, having died in 1794. He was a land agent for 
large tracts of land and came out here to dispose of them for the 
owners, but fell into the ways of dissipation common to a pioneer 
country life, where rye was the principal crop. I cannot find title to 
any other lands in the name of any Scripps, except that he obtained a 
patent from the commonwealth in 1796, as assignee of John Plumley, 
for 70 acres of land lying on the road from Morgantown to Clarksburg. 
He conveyed that by deed, his wife Grace joining, to one Henry Ham- 
ilton, April 27, 1809, for 300 dollars. It appears that he acknowledged it 
in open court at the August term 1809, so that it was probably the fall 
of 1809 when he left this country. This land is about three miles from 
town and is a fine farm now. It does not necessarily mean, because 
our records here do not show it, that William Scripps did not buy other 
tracts, as it was very common for persons, as the law then authorized, 
to record at Richmond titles to land in distant counties. 

"Morgantown has been the point from which whole colonies have 
emigrated to the west. At the time your ancestor lived here the father 
(grandfather?) of Mrs. President Hayes lived here also, and carried on 
a pottery and merchandizing. Many of his family connections married 
here and their descendants are still here. The record of titles would 
be more complete and satisfactory if the clerk's office containing them 
had not been burned in 1796." 



14 GENEALOGY OF THE 

SIXTH GENERATION. 

12. William Armiger Scripps, eldest son of AVilliam 
and Grace (Locke) Scripps, was born in London, July 21, 
1772. His name Armiger was derived from one William 
Armiger of Ely, who in 1746 married his great-aunt 
Elizabeth Plowright. At an early age he entered the office 
of the London Daily Sun as a clerk, and in February, 1801, 
became publisher of that paper. This position he resigned 
in 1820 to become the publisher of The Literary Gazette, 
a connection he retained till his death. About 1802 he 
added to his other business a general newspaper agency in 
South Molton street, which is still continued in the hands 
of a great-grandson. In August, 1797, he married Mary 
Dixie, who was born in St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, on 
March 30, 1771. She died at Earl's Court, near London, 
October 6, 1838. 4 He twice visited America, once in 1833 
and agaiu in 1843. In his later years he bought St. Cath- 
erine's Hall, Niton, Isle of Wight, where he ended his 
long life, dying suddenly, August 26, 1851. He was buried 
beside his wife in Ivensall Green Cemetery, London. Lie 
is remembeied as short of stature, bald, fond of a joke, a 
good story teller, an extensive reader, a close observer, 
possessed of considerable literary ability and powers of 

4. From the parish registers at St. Neots and Eynsbury I deduce 

the following pedigree of Mary Dixie: 

Edward Dixie^= Elizabeth Goodman 
m. 1710 

John Dixie=Elizabeth Harrison 
b. 1711, m. 1731 I 

John Dixie = Margaret 

ironmonger at I 

St. Neots, 

b. 1736 



John Dixie =Hannah Howard Mary Dixiei=Wm. A. Scripps 
ironmonger of I b. 1771 

London, b. 1767 I m. 1797 

m. 1822, d. 1824 I d. 1838 

Mary Dixie= Pearce 

d. 1900 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 15 

caricature, a man of sound judgment and superior business 
capacity. His children were as follows: 

31. Mary Heriot Scripps, b. Aug. 1, 1798. 

32. William Washington Scripps, b. Feb. 26, 1800. 

33. Virginia Grace Scripps, b. Feb. 6, 1802. 

34. James Mogg Scripps, b. Sept. 9, 1803. 

35. John Dixie Scripps, b. March 14, 1806. 

36. Thomas Scripps, b. Aug. 16, 1809. 

37. Anne Elizabeth Scripps, b. Dec. 1, 1816. 

14. Benjamin Scripps, son of William and Grace 
(Locke) Scripps, born in London, May 26, 1779; came 
with his parents to America in 1791, and upon reaching 
his majority entered upon a roving life. He lived for 
some time at Cape Girardeau, Mo., then under Spanish 
dominion, and served in a Spanish battalion against the 
Indians in 1802. In 1804 he traveled through. Texas, and 
then engaged in business in New Orleans. Next he 
embarked in trading with a boat on Red river. In 1809 
he was in possession of a farm in Catahola parish, Louisi- 
ana, a little west of Natchez. Thither he persuaded his 
father and family to remove, arranging to meet them at 
Cape Girardeau and conduct them to their new home. 
His father and family duly arrived at Cape Girardeau, but 
Benjamin failed to join them, and subsequent search for 
him led to the belief that he was robbed and murdered on 
Christmas day, 1809, at or near the mouth of the St. 
Francis river, the banks of the Mississippi being at that 
time infested with desperadoes. Thus it was that the 
Scripps family in America came for some years to be 
domiciled at Cape Girardeau. 

23. John Scripps, son of William and Grace (Locke) 
Scripps, born in London, August 26, 1785, was five years 
old when brought by his parents to America. He grew 
up in the rough wilderness of West Virginia, amid great 
privations. At 18 he was apprenticed to the tanning trade 
at Clarksburgh, where he remained four years. During 
this period he applied all his leisure time to reading and 
study, and thus picked up a tolerable education. In 1808, 



: 6 GENEALOGY OF THE 

in a great religious revival at Morgantown, he, with the 
rest of the family, became a Methodist, and a few years 
after was ordained a preacher of that denomination. In 
that capacity he had charge of circuits covering good parts 
of Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, and the first Methodist 
church in St. Louis was of his planting. He withdrew from 
active ministerial work in 1824, but continued a local 
preacher o+" the Methodist church to the end oi his lite. 
Removing to Cape Girardeau with his father's f aimly m 
1809, he established a tanyard there. Alter lM41ie 
engaged largely in mercantile business at Jackson, Mo., 
and later at Eushville, 111., but met misfortune m the 
o-eneral financial collapse of 1839. Later he for some 
years edited and published at Rushville the Prairie Tele- 
graph, a weeklv newspaper, now the Rushville Times. He 
married, on November 25, 1824, Agnes Come who was 
born at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, June 13, 1800. In 
July 1831 he removed to Eushville, 111., where he died, 
July 26 1865. 6 His wife died on May 31 of the following 
vear He was small in stature, but of great force and 
determination, possessing a strong will and strong convic- 
tions. He was fond of reading and study, and in view ot 

5 Kirkcudbright (pronounced Kir-koo-bry) is on the southwest 
coast ^ Scotland at the mouth of the River Dee It has one o' ^ 
nest harbors in the south of Scotland and a population of about 2,500 
sou is It is a beautiful town and was chartered as early as 1455. It 
was a favorite place of refuge during the religious persecutions. 

6. The following chronology of the events in the life of Rev. John 
Scripps were furnished by himself: *„„«„_ a t 

Arrived in Morgantown, December, 1792; apprenticed to a tanner a 
Clarksbursh Va , 1803; completed apprenticeship, May, 1808, left Mor 
"IrCapU— Mo M « f ^ £T^ 

^Tv-noeles across .ho state tc , SO.lo,, St Cla.r <%£*£?%£ 

conference, * •»>£• £££& 'r^Z, ill "or^anon, 
chandising at jackson, May, l»-b, seiecieu xv , , hool 

T,,* a is^n- onened store there, April, lsdl, eiecieu &cnuui 
ZEZJZimS -e op tanyarO !«.; Pe g a„ puO„s M „ K 
Prairie Telegraph, 1849; sold the newspaper, 1856. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 17 

his limited opportunities was a man of superior education. 
His children were as follows : 

38. George Henry Dickson Scripps, b. Oct. 13, 1825; died 1836. 

39. John Corrie Talbot Scripps, b. July 3, 1827. 

40. Eliza Agnes Davis Scripps, b. Feb. 24, 1829. 

41. Mary Margaret Hiler Scripps, b. May 4, 1831. 

42. Anne Virginia Ellen Scripps, b. Aug. 23, 1833. 

43. Penelope Jane Maria Scripps, b. Dec. 24, 1835. 

44. William Henry Baker Scripps, b. March 31, 1838. 

24. Anne Scripps, daughter of William and Grace 
(Locke) Scripps, born in London, January 10, 1787 ; died, 
unmarried, at Cape Girardeau, July 22, 1811, only five 
days after her mother, a fatal epidemic then raging in the 
little settlement. 7 

27. George Henry Scripps, youngest son of William 
and Grace (Locke) Scripps, was born in London, May 16, 
1790, and was brought to America an infant. He grew 
up at Morgantown and removed with the family to Cape 
Girardeau, where he followed farming, tanning and gen- 
eral merchandising. He was a man of high character and 
was licensed to preach in Methodist pulpits, but never 
pursued that calling. He served in the militia during the 
war of 1812, participating in the Battle of the Sink Hole 
on May 24, 1814, in which Black Hawk led the Indian 
combatant^. 8 He was a member of the convention which 
framed the first constitution for Missouri, and in 1824 was 
a member of the Legislature of that state. In April, 1830, 

7. A few years ago a stranger wrote me that he had in his posses- 
sion a copy of the second volume of The Guardian, printed in London 
in 1750, upon the fly-leaf of which was written "Miss Nancy Scripps 
July ye 12th 1806." The book of course belonged to Anne Scripps, who 
went by the name of Nancy. Curiously the little volume found it way 
from Cape Girardeau to Detroit, to be restored to the family after the 
lapse of nearly a hundred years. 

8. On the breaking out of the War of 1812 the Indians of the north- 
west were armed by the British and made incursions upon the settlers 
along the banks of the Mississippi. The United States government 
authorized the raising of three companies of rangers on the west bank, 
which were commanded respectively by Daniel M. Boone, Nathan 
Boone and David Musick. Numerous murders having been committed 
by the Indians, the whites for protection erected a number of stockades 



l8 GENEALOGY OF THE 

from motives of conscience, he emancipated his slaves and 
removed to the free state of Illinois, settling in Rushville, 
where he engaged extensively in tanning, milling and 
mercantile business. He visited England about 1838. On 
July 14, 1814, he married Mary, daughter of David and 
Catherine Ililer, who was born in Tennessee October 22, 
1797, and who died August 14, 1851. He then married, 
on December 16, 1852, Mrs. Jane Vandevanter of Ver- 
sailles, 111., who died March 16, 1865. His death occurred 
in Rnshville, November 29, 1859. His children, all by 
the first marriage, were as follows: 

45. William Hiler Scripps, b. Dec. 25, 1815. 

46. John Locke Scripps, b. Feb. 27, 1818. 

47. Catherine Anne Scripps, b. Dec. 28, 1819. 

48. Benjamin Franklin Scripps, b. Dec. 2, 1821. 

49. Lydia Elizabeth Scripps, b. Nov. 9, 1823. 

50. George Washington Scripps, b. Dec. 20, 1825. 

51. Isaac Scripps (twin son), b. Dec. 20, 1825; d. Dec. 31 
following. 

52. Joseph Edmondson Scripps,, b. Sept. 23. 1827; d. Jan. 5, 
1830. 

53. James Corrie Scripps. b. Feb. 3, 1830, d. Feb. 12, 1850. 

54. Mary Agnes Scripps, b. March 30, 1832. 

55. Virginia Ellen Scripps. b. Dec. 2, 1834; d. Dec. 6, 1851. 

56. Henrv Gates Scripps, b. Oct. 5, 1836; d. Mar. 12, 1837. 

57. Margaret Frances Scripps, b. Oct. 9, 1838; d. Jan. 17, 1846. 

at various points, within which they gathered for safety. One of these, 
named Fort Howard, was at or near the present site of Monroe, on 
Cuivre river, which enters the Mississippi about 50 miles above Alton. 
Peter Craig, of Cape Girardeau, was in command. On May 24, 1814, 
three men from the fort were killed by Indians. Capt. Craig with 
about 50 men started out to punish the redskins. At Benjamin Aller's 
farm on the bluff a sharp encounter took place. Capt. Musick with 20 
men, hearing the firing as he was returning from a scout, reinforced 
the whites and the Indians were driven from their position. The larger 
part took refuge in the Sink Hole, a natural hollow, 10 or 12 feet deep, 
60 long, by 12 or 15 wide, with steep banks well protected with bushes. 
Here the Indians were surrounded and an afternoon was spent in 
attempting to dislodge them, but without success. Black Hawk was a 
member of the Indian band. Captain Craig was killed with seven 
others, and five were wounded. Night coming on, other Indians began 
firing in the vicinity of the fort, half a mile distant, which, leading to 
the belief that the post was in danger, caused the troops to be drawn 
off for its protection, when the Indians sheltered in the Sink Hole 
made good their escape. (See Wisconsin Historical Society's Collec- 
tions, Vol. II., pp. 205-218.) 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 19 



SEVENTH GENERATION. 

31. Mary Heriot Scripps, named after John Heriot, 
editor of the Sun newspaper, eldest child of William A. 
and Mary (Dixie) Scripps, born in London, August 1, 
1798; married August 9, 1827, to Samuel Tudor of 
Oaken Gates, Salop, merchant of London, who was born 
December 16, 179 9. 9 She died April 4, 1859, he Decem- 
ber 21, 1864. Issue as follows: 

58. Samuel Tudor, b. June 14, 1828; d. July 26, 1828. 

59. Mary Tudor, b. May 19, 1829. 

60. Edward Scripps Tudor, b. Nov. 27, 1830. 

61. Henry Scripps Tudor, b. July 12, 1832; d. May 16, 1849. 

62. Harriet Anne Tudor, b. Nov. 13, 1834. 

63. Owen Scripps Tudor, b. Sept. 26, 1836. 

64. William Scripps Tudor, b. Feb. 2, 1838. 

65. Frederick Sidney Scripps Tudor, b. Nov. 12, 1839. 

32. William Washington Scripps, eldest son of Will- 
iam A. and Mary (Dixie) Scripps, born February 26, 1800 ; 
held for some time a government secretaryship in Trinidad, 
W. I. ; died unmarried in April, 1852. 

33. Virginia Grace Scripps, second daughter of Will- 
iam A. and Mary (Dixie) Scripps, born February 6, 1802 ; 
married August 29, 1822, to Samuel Deacon, of Skinner 
street, and later of Walbrook, London, a prominent 
member of the Sandemanian sect, and intimate friend of 



9. Nothing is known of the ancestry of the Tudor family, but, 
coming from the west of England, it is no doubt a remote branch of 
the Welsh family which furnished Ave sovereigns to the English 
throne. Samuel Tudor used jokingly to say in regard to his ancestry 
that he had never had an ancestor hanged but no doubt plenty of them 
richly deserved it. 



20 



GENEALOGY OF THE 



Michael Farraday. 10 He was born in London August 13, 
1790, and died at South Hackney January 18, 1861. His 
wife died March 1, 1868. 11 Their children were as follows : 

66. William Scripps Deacon, b. Dec. 17, 1823. 

67. Virginia Deacon, b. Dec. 3, 1825. 

68. Mary Deacon, b. Aug. 27, 1827. 

69. Ellen Deacon, b. March 29, 1829. 

70. Alfred Deacon, b. March 7, 1831. 

71. Arthur Deacon, b. Jan. 28, 1833. 

72. Grace Deacon, b. Aug. 5, 1834. 

73. Octavius Dixie Deacon, b. Aug. 9, 1836. 

74. Samuel Archer Deacon, b. Feb. 8, 1839. 

75. Catherine Anne Deacon, b. Nov. 2, 1842. 



10. Ancestry of Samuel Deacon: 

William Deacon==Elizabeth Archer, 
of Cianford, 
Northampton- 
shire, woolen 
mfr., b bet. 16S0 
and 1G90, m. 172S, 
d. 1739. 



William Deacon: 
woolen mfr. of 

Kettering, 
Northampton- 
shire, b. 1729, m. 
1754, d. 1S10. Dis- 
ciple of Andrew 
Fuller and later 
of Robt. Sande- 
man. 



=Hannah Benford, 
b. 1734, d. 1811. 



William Deacon==Ann Archer, 



extensive wagon 
propr. before the 
days of railways, 

b. 1757, m. 1788, 
d. 1815. 



dau. of Samuel 

Archer, 
b. 1767, d. 1835. 



Samuel Deacon==Virginia Grace Scripps, 
b. 1790, m. 1S22, b. 1802, d. 1868. 
d. 1861. 
11. Mrs. Deacon died at Finchley after only two days' illness. She 
was a very intelligent woman, with the Scripps thirst for knowledge, 
but was especially kind-hearted and ever ready to help needy rela- 
tives, and even those not related. Notwithstanding the largeness of 
her own family, on repeated instances she took into her own house 
and nursed through long illnesses persons who had but little claim 
upon her, but who had none other to turn to. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 21 

34. James Mogg Scripps (William A., William, 
William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in London Sep- 
tember 9, 1803; apprenticed at 14 to the bookbinding art 
which he followed upon his own account at Xo. 5 South 
Molton street from 1827 to 1844. He then emigrated to 
America and spent the rest of his life mainly in agricultural 
pursuits at Rnshville, 111. On January 25, 1829, he 
married Elizabeth Sabey, of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, 12 
by whom he had children as follows : 

76. William Sabey Scripps, b. Oct. 12, 1829; d. Jan. 8, 1831. 

77. Elizabeth Mary Scripps, b. April 23, 1831. 

Elizabeth Scripps died May 19, 1831, aged 26 years. 
He then married, on January 9, 1833, Ellen Mary Saun- 

12. A few reminiscences of James M. Scripps by his brother 
Thomas: 

"James did not receive the same educational advantages as his 
brothers. He was sent to a school at Brixton kept by a man named 
Dean, of the Squeers type. He frequently set the boys to weeding his 
garden, grooming his horse, cleaning his windows, etc., to the neglect 
of their own studies. So James had scanty opportunities for gaining 
information. He was scarcely 13 years of age when his father removed 
from Acre Lane, Brixton, to his place of business, No. 7 South Molton 
street, and he evinced at that time considerable mechanical talent. 
At that early age he constructed, unaided, an air-pump, an electrifying 
machine, and other things. He was also fond of chemistry, and used 
to amuse himself by making fireworks and air balloons, kites, etc. 
About this time also he made a pretty little cabinet to contain butter- 
flies, etc., which his brother William, who was a naturalist, had 
collected. This cabinet is still preserved in the family. Showing such 
decided skill and preference for handicrafts of all kinds (he was never 
fond of book learning) caused his father to apprentice him to a book- 
binder, an unfortunate thing for James, as there was not sufficient 
scope in the trade for his talents, which were undoubtedly of no 
common order. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a man named 
Cook, in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, with whom he served his term 
of seven years. He then entered the service of Charles Lewis, the first 
bookbinder in London at that time, with whom he remained as jour- 
neyman for two or three years with a salary of four or five pounds 
per week, unusually high and an additional proof of his superior skill 
and aptitude. He was about 24 when he began business on his own 
account at No. 5 South Molton street. 

"In 1826 he accompanied Mr. Tudor on a summer excursion into 
Shropshire. On the way they stopped at an inn at Biggleswade, 
Bedfordshire, kept by James's aunt, Mrs. Rawlins, his mother's sister. 



22 GENEALOGY OF THE 

tiers, daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Saunders, and 
granddaughter of Abraham Mogg, of Bristol, who was 
born January 21, 1804. 13 The issue by this marriage was: 

78. Ellen Sophia Scripps, b. Nov. 30, 1833; d. May 8, 1834. 

79. James Edmund Scripps, b. March 19, 1835. 

80. Ellen Browning Scripps, b. Oct. 18, 1836. 

81. William Armiger Scripps, b. July 14, 1838. 

82. George Henry Scripps, b. Aug. 14, 1839. 

83. John Mogg Scripps, b. Nov. 24, 1840. 

Ellen Mary Scripps died April 30, 1841, and is buried in 
St. George's Burying Ground, Bayswater, London. After 
emigrating to America, James M. Scripps married, Novem- 
ber 26, 1841, for his third wife, Julia Adeline Osborn, 

There he met and fell in love at first sight with his cousin Elizabeth 
Sabey, Mrs. Rawlins's daughter by a former marriage. This lady, who 
possessed great beauty and sweet and amiable manners, became his 
wife in 1829. They lived very happily for two years and a half, when 
Elizabeth died, a month after the birth of her second child." 

13. Elizabeth Saunders, nee Mogg, was, I believe, great-niece to Dr. 
Edward Jenner, discoverer of vaccination. In early life she became 
converted in one of Lady Huntingdon's chapels, and throughout life 
was one of the most pious of women, as were all her daughters. She 
married Edmund Saunders, who for many years held a position in the 
Bristol Custom House, which he secured through the influence of Sir 
Henry Lethbridge, whose bailiff or steward his father had been. He, 
too, was a man of exemplary piety. Ellen Mary was their eldest 
daughter and second child. She was confirmed in 1821 in St. James's 
church, by Dr. Kaye, Bishop of Bristol. She was married at the parish 
church of Westbury-on-Trim by Rev. John Mais. As her diaries 
indicate, she was deeply religious, and was a devoted adherent of the 
evangelical wing of the Church of England. One of her brothers, 
George L. Saunders, became famous as a miniature painter. 

Ellen Mary Saunders inherited from her mother considerable poet- 
ical genius, as the following verses, written in 1828, indicate: 

'Tis not the sudden impulse of the mind; 
'Tis not the fits and starts of conscious fear; 
But the habitual watching, that shall find 
The sweet returns of waiting faith and prayer. 

The patient beggar lingers at the door; 
It is not one repulse can drive him thence; 
O Christian! Christ's repelling hand has store 
That he at thy entreaty will dispense. 

As in a bank, concealed from human eye, 
The Christian's just reward and treasures lie; 
Supplies from thence, on need, his faith can call, 
And at the close of life inherit all. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 23 

who was born at Ogdensburgh, N". Y., December 18, 
1814. 14 By this marriage he had children as follows: 

84. Julia Anne Scripps, b. June 8, 1847. 

85. Thomas Osborn Scripps, b. Nov. 5, 1848; d. July 21, 1858. 

86. Frederick Tudor Scripps, b. Nov. 15, 1850. 

87. Eliza Virginia Scripps, b. Oct. 10, 1852. 

88. Edward Wyllis Scripps, b. June 18, 1854. 

James M. Scripps died in Rushville, May 12, 1873. 
He was a man of great mechanical skill, industry, bold 
enterprise, intelligence, and high personal character. As 
a book binder he had worked under Charles Lewis and at 
one time ranked as one of the two best binders in London. 
He has been credited with being the first to practice the 
binding of books in cloth. Upon settling in America he 
engaged successively in tanning and brick making, then 
established the first planing mill in Quincy, 111. ; was the 
first to furnish Rushville with ice, and later engaged exten- 
sively in the manufacture of molasses from sorghum. He 
invented a corn planter which, patented by another party, 
is in use to this day. 

Julia Adeline Scripps died at Miramar, Cal., June 18, 
1893, and was buried at Rushville. 

35. John Dixie Scripps, third son of William A. and 
Mary (Dixie) Scripps, was born in London March 14, 
J800. He was educated for the law, and a promising 
career at the bar was cut off by his early death, the indirect 
result of an accident in a gymnasium in his youth. He 
married, November 29, 1836, Emma Elizabeth Rice, who 
was born November 25, 1815. He died October 8, 1842, 

14. Julia Adeline Osborn was sixth child of Timothy Wyllis Osborn 
and Dolly or Dolla, Blair, daughter of Absolom and Martha Blair, of 
Williamstown, Mass. He was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1780. They 
lived after their marriage successively in St. Albans ana Middlebury, 
Vt., Ogdensburgh, N. Y., and from 1829 in Bainbridge, O., where Mrs. 
Osborn died in 1834. Julia Adeline was a woman of superior ability 
as a manager, was well informed, and was in every way a devoted 
wife and mother. She was a consistent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. 



24 GENEALOGY OF THE 

and Mrs. Scripps on February 28, 1901. They had but 
one child, viz. : 

89. Mary Emma Scripps, b. March. 18, 1840. 

36. Thomas Scripps (William A., William, William, 
Robert, Robert, Thomas) was born at Brixton, Surrey, 
August 1G, 1809. As a young man he was a witness of 
the famous Bristol riots of 1831, and assisted in rescuing 
the corporation plate. He succeeded to his father's news- 
agency business in South Molton street, which he carried 
on till his death. He married, June 22, 1841, Harriet 
Farnworth, who was born October 3, 1813. 15 She died 
December 27, 1856. He then married, June 8, 1858, 
Cecilia Thompson, who was born January 2, 1819. He 
visited America in 1857. He died March 22, 1876, and is 
buried in Highgate Cemetery, London. His children by 
the first marriage were : 

90. Mary Harriet Scripps, b. April 19, 1842; d. May 21, 1844. 

91. Harriet Jane Scripps, b. Feb. 21, 1845. 

92. Frances Eliza Scripps, b. Oct. 19, 1846. 

93. William Farnworth Scripps, b. Sept. 28, 1848; d. Feb. 
28, 1858. 

94. Charles Farnworth Scripps, b. June 9, 1850. 

95. George Farnworth Scripps b. June 29, 1852. 

96. Helen Grace Scripps, b. Nov. 21, 1854; d. May 14, 1855. 

By the second marriage the issue was: 

97. William Henry Scripps, b. June 15, 1859. 

98. Thomas Cecil Scripps, b. Aug. 8, 1863. 

Mrs. Cecilia Scripps removed to Canterbury in Sep- 
tember, 1892, and died there October 18, 1901. 

15. Ancestry of Harriet Farnworth: 

Samuel Farnworth, Thomas Houghton, Body Spearman, 

merchant of Cul- of Hollingbury, b. 1719, d. 1766. 

lorn St., Lime St., Hull. 

London. i 

John Farnworth. Henry Houghton==Martha Spearman. 



Charles Farnworth==Harriet Houghton. 
Harriet Farnworth==Thomas Scripps. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



25 



37. Anne Elizabeth Scripps, youngest daughter of 
William A. and Mary (Dixie) Scripps, was born in London 
December 1, 1816. She visited America with her father 
in 1843. At his death she became one of the earliest 
members of the Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist, at 
Clewer, and in furtherance of the work of this order spent 
a year in xVmerica in 1872-3. Possessed of superior 
musical talent, she has composed much sacred music. 10 

16. As an example of her musical composition I take the liberty of 
reproducing here her setting of Horatius Bonar's well-known hymn, 
"I Was a Wand'ring Sheep." It is No. 18 in a collection of 21 hymn 
tunes by her, published about 1870 by Novello, Ewer & Co., of London: 



No. 18. 



3 toas a toanb'ring sheep 



- A 








i 










6.6,8,6.6,6,8,6. 










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! 


was 

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— — 


— * r P — ' 

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a wan d ring 
J J J 1 


' — <a — »- 
1 

sheep 


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i 


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i 

did 


5" 

not 


love 


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the 


(old. 


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^= 


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not love my Shepherd s voice. 1 would not be con troll'd i 

I i i J A * A A A J 




r ' *[ " t ' r "* f f ^~ 

t was a way ward child. 1 did not love my home , 

J J J 



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1 


did 


not love my 
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Fa- ther's voice . I 

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lov'd a - far 


to 


roam. 


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26 GENEALOGY OF THE 

Sister Anne Elizabeth, as she is known in her community, 
is today the oldest surviving member of the order. 

39.' John Corrie Talbot Scripps (John, William, 
William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born at Jackson, Mo., 
July 3, 1827. For some years, in connection with his 
father, he published the Prairie Telegraph at Rushville, 
then engaged in farming. He was elected, for one or more 
terms, county clerk for Schuyler county. In 1883 ho 
removed to De Soto, Iowa, where he died, suddenly, 
January 4, 1900. He was a skillful farmer and an open- 
hearted, generous man. He married, June 29, 1854, 
Emma Truett, who was born at York, Pa., July 31, 1832. 1T 
Their children were as follows : 

99. Delia Sarah Agnes Scripps, b. June 4, 1855. 

100. Ellen Virginia Scripps, b. Oct. 28, 1857; d. April 9, 1861. 

101. Emma Grace Scripps, b. Aug. 21, 1859. 

102. Mary Scripps, b. Feb. 5, 1861; d. March 2, 1861. 

103. Minerva Scripps, b. May 26, 1862. 

104. Henrietta Duncan Scripps, b. Dec. 11, 1868. 

105. Eliza May Scripps, b. May 2, 1870. 

106. John Scripps, b. March 8, 1873; d. same day. 

107. Henry Scripps, b. March 12, 1874; d. same day. 

108. Corrie Scripps, b. July 14, 1875. 

40. Eliza Agnes Davis Scripps, eldest daughter of 
John and Agnes (Corrie) Scripps, born at Jackson, Mo., 

17. Emma Truett's father was George Truett, who was born in 
Dover, Delaware, April 2, 1800, and died in San Francisco, May 2, 1855. 
He was of English ancestry. Her mother, Sarah Hartman, was born 
in York, Pa., March 22, 1798, and died in Frederick, 111., September 4, 
18G7. The Hartmans were among the early Dutch settlers of Pennsyl- 
vania. In 1839 Mr. Truett moved with his family in wagons from 
Baltimore, Md., to Pittsburgh, where he took steamer down the Ohio 
and up the Mississippi to Keokuk. He then selected land on the Des 
Moines river, about 30 miles above its mouth. The country was at 
that time new and sparsely settled. A few years later he laid out on 
his land the city of Portland. It was located at what was intended to 
be the head of slack-water navigation on the Des Moines, but the 
improvement of the river was never consummated, and the Des Moines 
Valley Railway being constructed on the opposite side of the stream, 
his expectations of Portland becoming a place of importance were not 
realized. The place is now known as Leando. Later Mr. Truett 
removed to Quincy, 111., and thence, with the discovery of gold in Cali- 
fornia, went overland to that country, where he died. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



27 



February 24, 1829; married at Rushville, October 12, 
1816, to Edmund Parker Chase, son of William and 
Hannah Chase, who was born in Boston, Mass., May 30, 
1821, and educated at Yale. He died at Des Moines, Iowa, 
June 21, 18 9 6. 18 Issue as follows, the first two born 
in Rushville, the others in Beardstown, 111. : 

109. John William Chase, b. Jan. 21, 1848. 

110. Anna Agnes Chase, b. Oct. 4, 1849; d. Nov. 17, 1865. 



18. Ancestry of Edmund Parker Chase: 

Thomas Chase 

of Chesham, Bucks, 

England 



Richard Chase=Joan Bishop 
b. 1542 in 
Chesham 
m. 1564 

Aquila Chase 
b. 1580 



Aquila Chase = Anne Wheeler 



b. 1618, one of ori 
ginal settlers of 
Hampton, N. H., 

1639, and New- 

buryport ab. 1646 

d.1670 



of Salisbury, 
England 



Moses Chase = 

b. 1663 at 
Newbury, N.H. 



=Anne Follansby 



Daniel Chase= 

b. 1685, m. 1707 

d. 1768 



=Sarah March 



Samuel Chase= 
b. 1707, d. 1800 

settled in 
Cornish, N.H. 



=Mary Dudley 



Dudley Chase=Alice Corbet 
b. 1730, d. 1814 I 



Moody Chase = 
b. 1721 in Sutton, 
Mass., m. 1748, d. 
1815. Convert of 
George White- 
field 



Elizabeth Hale 
of Bradford, 



Jacob Chase = Abigail Hubbard 
of Groton and I d. 1790 

Shirley, Mass. 
b. 1761, d. 1848 



Philander Chase 

b. 1775, d. 1852 
Bishop of Illinois 



Ithamar Chase=Janet Ralston 
b. 1763. Distin- 
guished citizen 
of Vermont 

Salmon P. Chase 

b. 1808, d. 1873 

Chief Justice of U. S. 

Edmund P. Chase had two great-uncles on his mother's side who 

fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. He graduated at Yale in the class 

of 1841, then studied law with David A. Hall, of Washington, D. C. 



William Chase=Hannah Parker 
b. in Groton | b. 1790, d. 1847 
1788, m. 1815, 
d. 1869 

Edmund P. Chase 
b. 1821, d. 1896 



28 



GENEALOGY OF THE 



111. Charles Rich Chase, b. Sept. 24, 1851. 

112. Mary Elizabeth Chase, b. Sept. 13, 1853. 

113. Jennie Maria Chase, b. April 6, 1856; d. Sept. 27, 1875. 

114. Edmund Corrie Chase, b. April 13, 1858. 

115. William Henry Scripps Chase, b. Jan. 8, 1860. 

116. Heber Franklin Chase, b. Jan. 18, 1863; d. Aug. 22, 1863. 

117. Howard Lincoln Chase, b. April 5, 1865; d. Sept. 19, 1865. 

118. William Parker Chase, b. Aug. 6, 1870. 

41. Mary Margaret Hiler Scripps, second daughter 
of John and Agnes (Corrie) Scripps, born at Corrieville, 
Lawrence Co., 111., May 4, 1831; married at Rushville, 
December 9, 1852, to Joshua Meriwether Sweeney, who 
was born at Perrysville, Ky., December 27, 1828. 19 She 
died in Rushville "February 9, 1886, and he at Sionx City, 

Admitted to the bar before he had completed the usual term of study, 
he was advised by Daniel Webster to settle in the west, and accord- 
ingly began the practice of law in St. Louis in 1843. In February, 1846, 
he tried a case in Rushville for an old friend of his father's and won 
the suit. He was then persuaded to remain in Rushville and engage in 
mercantile business with his brother William, a step which he always 
regretted. Later he was in business in Beardstown, 111., from whence 
he removed to Des Moines, Iowa. 

19. Pedigree of Joshua M. Sweeney and Charles H. Sweeney: 

Great-great grandfather emigrated 
from Ireland. Settled in Appomat- 
tox Co., Va. Built mill on Slate 
river; still known as Sweeney's mill 



Charles S. Sweeney 
born in Va.; settled in 
Kentucky in 1799 or 1800 



Charles Sweeney = 
b. 1766, d.1853. Served 
in American Revolu- 
tion. Had nine sons, 

named respectively 
Joel, Josiah, James, 
Jonathan, Jesse, Josh- 
ua, Job, Jordan, and 
Jefferson 



Frances Shackleford 
b. 1776, d. 1863 



Joshua Jones =Hannah Todhunter 



b. in Wales; set- 
tled in Wythe 

Co., Va. Survey 

or; served in 

Revolution 



Dr. Jesse Sweeney = Minerva Sanders 



b. Casey Co., Ky., Oct. 

29, 18U0; educated Tran- 
sylvania university. 
Settled in Rushville, 

111., 1851 
d. there Feb. 7, 1863 



b. Monticello, Ky., 
Apr. 30, 1805 
m. Oct. 6, 1825 
d. Feb. 12, 1887 



of a Philadelphia 
Quaker family 



Hiram Sanders 
settled in Ky. 



Sarah Jones 

b. Wythe Co , 

Va. 



Joshua M. Sweeney=Mary M. H. Scripps 



Charles H. Sweeney=P. J. Maria Scripps 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 29 

Iowa, April 18, 1894. Their children, all born in Rush- 
ville, were : 

119. Cleon Fleece Sweeney, b. Jan. 7, 1854. 

120. John Scripps Sweeney, b. Aug. 12, 1855. 

121. Jessie Sanders Sweeney, b. Dec. 10, 1858. 

42. Anne Virginia Ellen Scripps, third daughter of 
John and Agnes (Corrie) Scripps, born in Rushville 
August 23, 1833; married, June 13, 1861, to Joshua 
Kichols Speed, M. P., who was born at Danville, Ky., 
February 1, 1833. 20 He died November 6, 1900. Their 
children, all born in Rushville, were : 

122. William Henry Scripps Speed, b. April 17, 1863. 

123. Agnes Corrie Scripps Speed, b. Jan. 19, 1866; d. April 
28, 1872. 

124. Anna Eliza Chase Speed, b. Feb. 20, 1868; d. April 1, 
1872. 

125. Elizabeth Nichols Scripps Speed, b. Dec. 2, 1871. 

43. Penelope Jane Maria Scripps, youngest daughter 
of John and Agnes (Corrie) Scripps, born in Rushville 
December 24, 1835; married, December 3, 1861, to 
Charles Harrison Sweeney, who was born at Harrodsburg, 
Ky., September 14, 1S37. 10 He enlisted in 1862 as a 
private in the 119th Illinois infantry, and was successively 
promoted to lieutenancy and captaincy. He participated 
in many engagements, notably in the storming of the forts 
in Mobile bay. He was mustered out in September, 1865, 

20. Ancestry of Joshua N. Speed: 
Mathias Speed, 
b. Va., 1754. 



Mathias Speed, Joshua Nichols==Hannah Coggshall, 

b. Mass., 1778; 
fl. Rushville, 1865. 
Rushville, 1S63. 



b. Danville, Ky. b. Providence 

R. I., 1775; d 



William Speed==Elizabeth Nichols. 



b. Danville 1811, 

d. Rushville, 

189S. 



b. Newport, R. I. 

1810: d. Buena 

Vista, Col., 1S91. 



Joshua Nichols Speed==Anne Virginia Ellen Scripps. 
b. Danville, Feb. 1, 
1S34; d. Rushville, 
Nov. 6, 1900. 



30 GENEALOGY OF THE 

when lie engaged in the practice of law, at first in Missouri 
and later in Des Moines, Towa. While sick at Memphis, 
in 1864, he was joined by his wife, who was thus a witness 
of Gen. Forrest's raid on that city. A cannon ball went 
through the house in which she was staying, and the 
enemy made a dash through the yard belonging to the 
same. Their children were : 

126. Eliza Agnes Sweeney, b. at Rushville Sept. 1, 1868. 

127. Edmund Chase Sweeney, b. at Roscoe, Mo., Dec. 4, 1871; 
d. April IB, 1875. 

128. Mary Elizabeth Sweeney, b. June 26, 1875; d. Nov. 3, 
1875. 

44. William Henry Baker Scripps (John, William, 
William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born at Rushville 
March 31, 1838; married, June 14, 1865, Mary Rebecca 
Little, second daughter of George Little, who was born in 
Rushville August 16, 1845. 2j He was a man of exception- 
ally lovely character, and a bright, enterprising business 
man. He died in Rushville, September 19, 1874. His wife 
died October 8, 1878. Their children were: 

129. John Locke Scripps, b. Oct.. 17, 1866. 

130. George Henry Little Scripps, b. Feb. 22, 1869. 

45. William Lliler Scripps (George H., William, 
William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Cape Girard- 
eau, Mo., December 25, 1815 ; married, February 15, 
1845, at Jacksonville, 111., Mary Caroline Johnson, who 
was born in Philadelphia February 15, 1825. He estab- 
lished himself as a merchant and banker in Astoria, 111., 
and acquired a large fortune in honorable trade. Mrs. 
Scripps died November 14, 1889. Their children were as 
follows, all born at Astoria: 

131. Mary Scripps, b. June 19, 1849. 

132. William Scripps, b. Feb. 19, 1851. 

133. George Scripps, b. Feb. 22, 1853. 

134. Eliza Scripps, b. Aug. 15, 1855. 

135. Johnson Scripps, b. Oct. 31, 1857; d. April, 1873. 

136. John Scripps, b. March 26, 1861. 

137. Winter Scripps, b. March 23, 1864. 

21. Mary R. Little was daughter of George Little by his first wife, 
Jane Lloyd, whom he married Sept. 1, 1840. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 3 1 

46. John Locke Scripps (George H., William, Will- 
iam, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Cape Girardeau 
February- 27, 1818; educated at McKendree College, 111.; 
settled in Chicago, in the practice of law, in 1847, but soon 
interested himself in journalism; was one of the founders 
of the Chicago Tribune, and for some years its chief editor. 
President Lincoln appointed him postmaster for Chicago, 
a position he held for four years. Jointly with George B. 
Armstrong, his assistant postmaster, he conceived and 
carried out the idea of distributing mails on the cars, a 
system which has since been generally introduced. He 
wrote in 1860 the first life of Abraham Lincoln ever 
published. He was a man of high scholarly attainments, 
great purity of character and amiable disposition. He 
married, October 24, 1848, Mary Elizabeth Blanchard. 
daughter of Seth Blanchard, of Greenville, 111., who was 
born January 2, 1825, and educated at Monticello Semi- 
nary, 111. She died suddenly on January 1, 1866, and 
he on September 21 of the same year. Their children, all 
born in Chicago, were : 

138. George Blanchard Scripps, b. Sept. 20, 1849. 

139. Mary Virginia Scripps, b. Feb. 13, 1851; d. Feb. 2, 1852. 

140. Grace Locke Scripps, b Sept. 13, 1863. 

47. Catherine Anne Scripps, eldest daughter of George 
H. and Mary (Hiler) Scripps, born at Cape Girardeau 
December 28, 1819; married at Rushville, August 16, 
1836, to Josiah Parrotte, who was born at Easton, Md., 
July 20, 1800. 22 He was a large land-owner, farmer, miller 
and merchant. He died at Rushville May 31, 1881, and 

22. He was the son of Perry Parrotte and Lucretia Watts. The 
father was a native of France and a large ship owner. He was lost at 
sea about 1812. The mother is believed to have been a native of Wales. 
Josiah Parrotte left Maryland for Virginia about 1815, but soon moved 
on to Kentucky, and in 1830 settled in Rushville, 111., where he became 
one of the most enterprising as well as one of the wealthiest of its 
citizens. He was a devout Methodist and one of the most hospitable 
of men. 

His wife was a woman of rare gentleness and piety, and one of the 
best of mothers. 



32 GENEALOGY OF THE 

she August 13, 1804. They had 12 children, all born in 
Rnshville : 

141. George William Parrotte, b. July 27, 1837. 

142. Nancy Maria Parrotte, b. July 29, 1839. 

143. Sarah Lucretia Parrotte, b. Mar. 28, 1841. 

144. Lydia Frances Parrotte, b. Oct. 30, 1842. 

145. Josiah Locke Parrotte, b. Nov. 16, 1844. 

146. Lewis Watts Parrotte, b. Oct. 15, 1846. 
117. Agnes Catherine Parrotte, b. Sept. 28, 1848. 

148. Franklin Scripps Parrotte, b. April 25, 1851; d. June 8, 
1852. 

149. Charles Samuel Parrotte. b. May 17, 1853. 

150. Walter Lee Parrotte, b. Mar. 23, 1855. 

151. Marcus Lindsay Parrotte, b. April 2, 1858. 

152. Ellen Virginia Parrotte, b. Nov. 17, 1861; d. Mar. 8, 1888. 

48. Benjamin Franklin Scripps, third son of George 
H. and Mary (Hiler) Scripps, born at Cape Girardeau 
December 2, 1821; died in "Rushville, unmarried, Decem- 
ber 29, 1849. He founded, and published in Rnshville 
until his death, the Prairie Telegraph 23 newspaper, which 
is still continued as the Rnshville Times. 



23. The Prairie Telegraph was the second newspaper launched in 
Rushville. The first was the Rushville Journal and Military Tract 
Advertiser, started May 5, 1835. It ran two years under different man 
agements, and was then in 1837 changed to the Schuyler Advocate. In 
1838 the name was again changed to The Test, and it became whig in 
politics. In 1839 it became democratic, and was now named the Illinois 
Republican. In 1840 it was again changed to The Political Examiner. 
All this time the paper had led a precarious existence, and in 1843 was 
discontinued altogether. 

On July 8, 1848, the type and press of the Examiner were employed 
by Benjamin F. Scripps and Richard R. Randall in the establishment 
of the Prairie Telegraph. Randall soon retired, and in 1850 B. P. 
Scripps was forced by ill health to give up business. Rev. John Scripps 
and his son, John Corrie Scripps, then succeeded to the conduct of the 
newspaper and carried it on for six years. In 1856 it was sold to a 
syndicate of democrats and its name changed, on January 1, 1857, to the 
Rushville Times. In 1868 it was purchased at sheriff's sale by Edwin 
Dyson, who has continued its publication to this time. 

On April 15, 1854, a paper called The Schuyler Democrat was started 
in Rushville. On August 17, la55. it was purchased by George W. 
Scripps, its name changed to the Schuyler Citizen, and its politics to 
republican. The republican party had then been organized just one 
month and 10 days. Mr. Scripps continued the publication till the 
spring of 1882, when he sold the paper to its present proprietor. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 33 

49. Lydia Elizabeth Scripps, second daughter of 
George H. and Mary (Hiler) Scripps, born in Cape 
Girardeau November 9. 1823; educated at Monticello 
Seminary, class of 1844; married in Rushville, February 
16, 1852, to George Little, the leading merchant and 
banker of the place, who was born near Columbia, Lan- 
caster Co., Pa., February 9, 1808. He settled in Eushville 
in 1836, and died there March 5, 1896. 24 Children as 
follows : 

153. George Henry Little, b. Feb. 4, 1853; d. Jan. 8, 1880. 

154. John William Little, b. May 26, 1857; d. Mar. 14, 1861. 

155. Grace Little, b. Jan. 2, 1860. 

156. Virginia Ellen Little, b. June 26, 1862. 

157. John Scripps Little, b. Feb. 23, 1864. 

50. George Washington Scripps (George H., Will- 
iam, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Jackson, 
Mo., December 20, 1825; brought up to the tanning 
business. In 1854 he founded the Schuyler Citizen, the 
first republican newspaper in Rushville, 23 and continued 
its editorship till 1882, when he removed to Detroit, and 
for the remainder of his life was attached to the staff of 
The Evening News of that city. From 1S69 to 1882 he 
served as postmaster for Rushville. He was a devout 
Methodist, and a very active worker in Sunday schools and 
young men's lyceum enterprises. On October 30, 1850, 
he married Sarah Eleanor, eldest daughter of Rev. John 
Clarke, 24 who was born at Allegheny City, Pa., December 
24, 1827. He died in Detroit September 21, 1898, and 
she on November 17, 1902. Issue as follows, all born in 
Rushville : 

158. George Clarke Scripps, b. Dec. 20, 1851. 

159. John Franklin Scripps, b. Aug. 24, 1853; d. Aug. 5, 1870. 

160. Anna Jane Scripps, b. Nov. 27, 1855; d. Aug. 3, 1859. 

161. Ernest O'Hern Scripps, b. Feb. 1, 1858. 

162. Charles Herman Scripps, b. Mar. 10, 1860. 

163. Catherine Elizabeth Scripps, b. Feb. 15, 1862. 

164. Thomas Henry Scripps, b. Oct. 9, 1864; d. June 18, 1865. 

165. Benjamin Locke Scripps, b. Dec. 10, 1866; d. same day. 



34 GENEALOGY OF THE 

166. William Locke Scripps, b. April 3, 1868; d. Mar. 23, 
1888. (See note 25 below.) 

167. James Albert Scripps, b. Jan. 29, 1870, d. Jan. 8, 1878. 

54. Mary Agnes Scripps, third daughter of George 
H. and Mary (Hiler) Scripps, born at Cape Girardeau 

24. Ancestry of Sarah Eleanor Clarke: 

Duncan Clarke of County Tyrone, 

Ireland, first cousin of Adam 

Clarke, the commentator 

James Clarke = Susannah Wood 
of Co. Tyrone; an 1 



early convert to 
Methodism 



John Clarke = Eleanor Greer Rebecca Greer=James Little 



b. in Ireland 
about 1770. Emi- 
grated about 1801; 
d. in Allegheny 
Co., Pa., Dec. 24, 
1833 



b. Co. Tyrone 

about 1770; d. 

Kushville, 111., 

Aug. 29, 1867 



Rev. John Clarke*= Ann O'Hern George Little 

dau. of John and See Lydia E. Scripps (49) supra 

Sarah O'Hern, 

who emigrated 

from Ireland; b. 

at Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Aug. 30, 1809; d. 

Rushville, 111. 

Feb. 2, 1887 



b. Lancaster, Pa., 
Sept. 24, 1806; m. 
Pittsburgh, Nov. 
16,1826; d. Detroit, 
May 18, 1896 



I I 

Sarah Eleanor Clarke Albert Beard Clarke 

♦Learned the trade of hatter. In 1829 spent some time in the south for his 
health. Returning, was licensed to preach in the Methodist Protestant denom- 
ination. In 1833 had a charge in Cincinnati. In 1834 was president of the Ohio 
conference. From 1835 to 1838 was engaged in endeavor to found a denomina- 
tional college at Lawrenceburg, Ind. In 1843 settled near Rushville, 111., and in 
1845 was president of the Illinois conference. In 1853 he withdrew from the 
Methodist Protestant church and was received into the Methodist Episcopal. 
Was engaged in active pastoral work for 30 years, and then for 34 years longer 
continued a local preacher. He was an ardent anti-slavery advocate and was a 
member of the first republican state convention ever held in Illinois. 

25. William Locke Scripps removed with his parents from Rushville 
to Detroit in the spring of 1882. He was distinguishing himself by his 
rapid progress in the Detroit High School when he was taken out to 
assist in the family support. For a time he was employed in the mail- 
ing department of The Evening News, but upon the establishment of 
the Dime Savings Bank in 1885 he was appointed to a clerkship in it, 
and soon won the reputation of being one of the most industrious, 
faithful and trustworthy of its staff. Meanwhile he was earning money 
in his leisure hours by mowing lawns and conducting an agency for 
The Evening News. In all this he displayed great business capacity 
and a commendable ambition to assist his father and lay the founda- 
tion for his own fortune. He also prosecuted the studies broken off 
by his leaving school, and was the originator of and one of the most 
active members in a young men's literary club called the Pros and 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 35 

March 30, 1832 ; married, October 1, 1850, to John Courts 
Bagby, who was born in Glasgow, Ky., January 24, 1819/° 
He graduated at Bacon College, at Georgetown, Ky., in 
1840, practiced law in Rushville for many years, served 
for nine years as circuit judge, and was a member of the 
Forty-fourth Congress for the tenth district of Illinois. 
He died in Rushville April 4, 1896. Issue as follows, all 
born in Rushville : 

168. Mary Frances Bagby, b. Sept. 26, 1851. 

169. John Scripps Bagby, b. Feb. 28, 1853. 

170. Virginia Elizabeth Bagby, b. Oct. 23, 1855; d. Nov. 19, 
1865. 

171. Albert Morris Bagby, b. April 29, 1859. 

172. George Henry Bagby, b. July 1, 1861. 

173. William Ray Bagby, b. Mar. 5, 1864; d. June 1, 1865. 

174. Katherine Blauchard Bagby, b. Mar. 23, 1866. 

175. Arthur Frederick Bagby, b. Dec. 8, 1868. 

176. Edwin Hanson Bagby, b. Oct. 23, 1871. 

Cons, which still .exists. In the spring of 1886 his health began to give 
way and he spent some time in Rushville for rest and change. There 
he took a severe cold from being caught in a rainstorm while hunting, 
and returned to Detroit a confirmed invalid. In August, 1887, he went 
in company with his brother Herman to Denver Col., and remained 
there till the following February, when he became so much worse that 
it was recognized that he could not long survive. He at once took to 
his bed and died March 23, 1888. He N was a remarkable young man for 
the multiplicity of his excellent qualities, and his apparent entire lack 
of faults. With an energy which knew no limit he possessed the 
happiest of dispositions. His voice was musical and his manners 
exceptionally pleasing. He was remarkably intelligent, yet thoroughly 
modest. He was thoroughly conscientious in. all matters and enjoyed 
the confidence and affection of all who knew him. 

26. James Bagby, a Scotchman, emigrated to America with his 
family and settled at Jamestown, Va„ somewhere near 1620. He had 
a son John, and a grandson of the same name who married a Miss 
Morris, sister of a Dr. Morris, of Richmond, Va. He lived in Louisa 
Co., Virginia. His son, Richard Bagby, married Sarah Kimbrough, 
and their son was Sylvanus Morris Bagby, father of the John C. Bagby 
above mentioned. Sylvanus M. Bagby moved to Kentucky in 1808 and 
married Frances Courts, of Glasgow, Ky. They removed to Rushville, 
111., in 1842, where both died. 



36 GENEALOGY OF THE 

EIGHTH GENERATION. 

59. Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Samuel and Mary 
Heriot (Scripps) Tudor, born in London, May 19, 1829; 
married, August 2, 1880, to Edward French, who was born 
September 9, 1828. She died without issue November 9, 
1891; he, April 20, 1902. 

60. Edward Scripps Tudor, merchant of London, 
second son of Samuel and Mary Heriot (Scripps)' Tudor, 
born November 27, 1830; married, December 30, 1869, 
Mary Walrond Punch, who was born July 8, 1835. 

62. Harriet Anne Tudor, second daughter of Samuel 
and Mary Heriot (Scripps) Tudor, born November 13, 
1834; married, June 12, 1860, to Jesse Thomas Charles- 
worth, of The Court, Nutfield, Surrey, who was born 
January 3, 1833. Issue as follows: 

177. Mary Charlesworth, b. July 20, 1861. 

178. Theodora Charlesworth, b. June 25, 1866. 

179. Guy Charlesworth, b. Sept. 5, 1867. 

180. Ethel Charlesworth, b. Oct. 25, 1868. 

181. Alice Charlesworth, b. Dec. 30, 1869. 

182. Violet Charlesworth, b. Feb. 6, 1871. 

183. Jessie Cecile Charlesworth, b. Nov. 11, 1872. 

184. Margaret Rebecca Charlesworth, b. April 15, 1876. 

185. Frederick Edward Tudor Charlesworth, b. June 5, 1877. 

63. Owen Scripps Tudor, fourth son of Samuel and 
Mary Heriot (Scripps) Tudor, merchant of Buenos Ayres 
and London, born September 26, 1836; married, Decem- 
ber 28, 1863, Elizabeth Punch, who was born January 5, 
1837, and who died October 26, 1901. Issue as follows: 

186. Mary Tudor, b. Oct. 1, 1864. 

187. Catherine Tudor, b. June 27, 1866. 

188. Owen Tudor, b. Sept. 3, 1867; d. Nov., 1874. 

189. Karry Tudor, b. Nov. 5, 1869. 

190. Philip Scripps Tudor, b April 12, 1871. 

191. Edith Walrond Tudor, b. July 20, 1872. 

192. Alice Maud Tudor, b. Oct. 20, 1873. 

193. Robert Edward Tudor, b. June 5, 1875. 

194. Geoffrey William Tudor, b. Jan. 17, 1877. 

195. Elizabeth Tudor, b. Nov. 12, 1878. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 37 

61. William Scripps Tudor, fifth son of Samuel and 
Mary Heriot (Scripps) Tudor, merchant of London, born 
February 2, 1838; married, June 5, 1867, Alice Punch, 
who was born November 9, 1844. 

65. Frederick Sidney Tudor, sixth son of Samuel and 
Mary Heriot (Scripps) Tudor, white lead manufacturer, 
Hull, Yorkshire, born November 12, 1839; married, 
January 25, 1870, Rosa French, of Chester, who was born 
November 9, 1842. He died January 28, "1882. Issue 
as follows : 

196. Mary Dorothea Tudor, b. Nov. 10, 1870. 

197. Edith Tudor, b. April 8, 1872. 

198. Gwendoline Tudor, b. 1878. 

199. Frederick Edward Tudor, b. 1880. 

66. William Scripps Deacon, printer and proof-reader, 
eldest son of Samuel and Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, 
bom December 17, 1823; married, May 2, 1848, Eliza 
Jane Grove, daughter of John and Elizabeth Grove, of 
Birmingham, who was born in October, 1828. 27 In 1870 
the family emigrated to America and settled in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Mrs. Deacon died November 16, 1896, and he 
September 28, 1901. Issue as follows: 

200. Arthur William Scripps Deacon, b. July 28, 1849. 

201. Cecilia Louisa Deacon, b. June 13, 1851. 

202. Alfred Harold Robert Graham Deacon, b. April 25, 1851. 

203. Grace Virginia Deacon, b. Jan. 7, 1858. 

204. Florence Katherine Deacon, b. Oct. 6, 1859. 

205. Albert Charles Edward Washington Deacon, b. Dec. 14, 
1862; d. Feb., 1864. 

206. Eliza Jane Deacon, b. Mar. 27, 1867. 

27. The ancestry of Eliza Jane Grove so far as known was: 
George Grove, 
of Birmingham. 

John Grove ==Elizabeth Girdler, 



of Birmingham, 

saddler and 

Quaker. 



d. in London, 
ae. 40. 



Eliza Jane Grove==William S. Deacon. 
The eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth Grove, Emma, was an 
actress and married a Mr. Tarnold, lessee of the Britannia theatre in 
London. She traveled in America as a star in Shakspearian drama, and 
died about 1867, at the age of 50. 



38 GENEALOGY OF THE 

67. Virginia Deacon, eldest daughter of Samuel and 
Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born December 3, 1825 ; 
died unmarried at Lingfield, Surrey, July 9, 1902; mem- 
orable for her deep religious character. 

68. Mary Deacon, second daughter of Samuel and 
Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born August 27, 1827; 
died unmarried at Eastbourne, Sussex, December 27, 1893. 
In conjunction with her younger sisters she founded and 
conducted for many years the Ladies' College at East- 
bourne, Sussex. 

70. Alfred Deacon, second son of Samuel and Vir- 
ginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born March 7, 1831; settled 
as an engraver at Eamsgate, Kent; married, December 8, 
1858, Emily Jones. Issue as follows : 

207. Alfred Deacon, b. Nov. 18, 1861. 

208. Edgar Samuel Deacon, b. Nov. 3, 1863. 

71. Arthur Deacon, third son of Samuel and Virginia 
Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born January 28, 1833; settled 
as a chemist at Witham, Essex ; married, October 28, 1857, 
Mercy Elizabeth Tuck, who was born August 14, 1834, 
and who died May 11, 1871. 28 In February, 1873, he 
emigrated with his sons to America and settled on a farm 
18 miles from Raleigh, N. C. This proving unsatisfactory, 
he removed to Detroit in October, 1874, and connected 
himself with The Evening News of that city. On April 
5, 1876, he married Laura Ann Stillman, nee "Whipple. 
He died January 30, 1889, and she on February 20. 1901. 

28. Daughter of Richard Tuck, who was steward for Lord Wode- 
house, later Earl of Wimberly, and had the care of his estates at 
Wymondham, Norfolk. He was born at Worstead, Norfolk, January 
16, 1796, and died at Witham March 20, I860. He was a man of deep 
religious character and much respected. The family name has been 
indifferently spelled Tuck, Tucke, Took, Tooke and Toock. Mrs. Dea- 
con's mother was Elizabeth Cross, who was born April 7, 1797, and died 
April 18, 1862. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 39 

The children by the first marriage, all born at Witham, 
were : 

209. Arthur Richard Deacon, b. Nov. 7, 1858. 

210. Alfred George Deacon, b. Sept. 3, 1860; d. Mar. 2, 1866. 

211. Philip Owen Deacon, b. Aug. 9, 1862; d. Feb. 13, 1883. 

212. Mercy Edith Deacon, b. June 15, 1864; d. Mar. 6, 1866. 

213. Robert Tuck Deacon, b. June 21, 1868. 

214. Alice Mary Deacon, b. June 7, 1868. 

215. May Deacon, b. May 10, 1870. 

72. Grace Deacon, fourth daughter of Samuel and 
Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born August 5, 1834; 
died unmarried at Lingtield, Surrey, March 1, 1900. 

73. Oetavhis Dixie Deacon, fourth son of Samuel and 
Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born August 9, 1836, 
at Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex. He succeeded to his 
father's business, and has served for some years as a com- 
mon councilman of the city of London. In 1897 he 
published a volume entitled "The Hidden Truth and Other 
Poems." On August 22, 18G8, he married Louisa Anna 
Plorncastle, who was born April 15, 1846. 29 Issue as 

29. Mrs. Deacon traces her ancestry in a direct line to Elistus, or 

Elisa, father of Cerdic, the first King of Wessex. Sharon Turner (Anglo 

Saxons, Vol. I., Chap. 2) traces the genealogy back eight generations 

further to Woden, whom he believes to have been a real personage 

and to have lived about 225 years after Christ. Supplementing the 

Horncastle pedigree by Turner's and we have the following: 

Woden. 

I 
Boeldoeg. 

I 
Brand. 

Freothogar. 

I 
Freawine. 

I 
Wig;. 

Giwis. 

Esla. 

I 
Elistus or Elisa. 

I 
Cerdic, 1st King of Wessex, ac. 519, ob. 534. 

I 
Cynric, 2d King of Wessex, ac. 534, ob. 560. 

I 
Ceawlin, 3d King of Wessex, ac. 560, ob. 593. 

I 



40 GENEALOGY OF THE 

follows, the first three born at Hackney, the others at 
Longhton, Essex: 

216. Elgiva Louisa Deacon, b. June 16, 1869. 

217. Dora Augusta Deacon, b. July 22, 1870. 

218. Owen Bismarck Deacon, b. April 21, 1872. 

219. Mary Etheldreda Deacon, b. Jan. 17, 1874. 

220. Willoughby Deacon, b. Jan. 1, 1876. 

221. Eleanor Deacon, b. Jan. 2, 1878. 

222. Jessica Deacon, b. Jan. 25, 1880. 

223. Harold Octavius Deacon, b. Dec. 6, 1883. 

224. Alexander Deacon, b. May 11, 1886. 

225. Roderick Scripps Deacon, b. May 3, 1889. 

Cuthwen. 

I 
Cutha. 

I 
Clowald. 

Cenred, ob. 718. 

I 
Inigils, or Inigesil. 

Esa. 

Eoppa, priest in 661. 

Alcmund. 

I 
Egbert the Great, 1st King of United England, ac. 800, ob. 836. 

I 
Ethelwulf, 2d King of England, ac. 836, ob. 856. 

I 
Alfred the Great, 6th King of England, b. 849, ac. 871, ob. 900. 

I 
Edward the Elder, 7th King of England, ob. 925. 

I 
Edmund I., 9th King of England, ac. 940, ob. 946. 

Edgar the Peaceable, 12th King of England, ac. 957, d. 975. 

I 
Ethelred II., 14th King of England, ac. 979, d. 1016. 

Elgiva (daughter), m. 1st, Earl of Athelstan, slain 1010; m. 2d, Ivo Taslebois, 

I brother to Fulke, Earl of Anjou, who came to England with 

William the Conqueror, 1066, and was created Baron of Kendall. 
Ethred, 2d Baron of Kendall, m. Edgitha. 

I 
Ketell, 3d Baron of Kendall, m. Christiana. 

Gilbert, 4th Baron of Kendall. 

Henry de Radcliffe, 2d son of Gilbert. Took his name from his manor of Rad- 

cliffe in Lancashire. Lived in reign of Henry II. 
William de Radcliffe, sheriff of Lancashire, 1194. 

Adam de Radcliffe, living in 1247. 

Robert de Radcliffe, d. before 1302. 

Richard de Radcliffe, living in 1295. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 41 

74. Samuel Archer Deacon, youngest son of Samuel 
and Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born February 8, 
1839 ; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, and upon his dis- 
charge settled in Cape Colony, South Africa. Intelligent 
and enterprising, he has prosecuted diamond mining, 
ostrich farming, tobacco culture, bee keeping, aloes refin- 
ing, and other occupations, none of which have proved 
financially successful. He is now postmaster at Herberts- 
Richard Radcliffe, 2d son. 

I 
William Radcliffe. 

I 

James Radcliffe. 

I 
Richard Radcliffe. 

James Radcliffe. 

I 
James Radcliffe. 

Owen Radcliffe. 

I 
Richard Radcliffe. 

I 
Edmund Radcliffe, d. 1603. 

Henry Radcliffe. 

I 
Edmund Radcliffe, of Oldham, 3d son, m. Ann . 

I 
William Radcliffe, 3d son, Rector of Downington and Ashton, near Rotherham; 
I d. Sept. 12, 1727, in 40th year of his rectorship and 88th of his 

age; m. Mary Beaumont, of Meltham, Jan. 18, 1664; she was 
born Jan. 18, 1642, and died May 4, 1725. 
William Radcliffe, of Milnsbridge and Kirkburton, captain; b. Oct. 20, 1670; d. 
May 20, 1748; m. Elizabeth Dawson (nee Taylor), at Marsden, 
Sept. 19, 1716. 
Charles Radcliffe, of York, d. Oct. 27, 1768, aged 50; m. Francina Towns, of 

| York, who d. July 15, 1787, aged 57. 

Elizabeth Radcliffe==Thomas Horncastle, 



b. June 14, 1759; 
d. Feb. 5, 1837. 



of Wandsworth Common, 
near London, who died Aug. 
5, 1829, aged 74. His father 
was Thomas Horncastle, 
ship-owner, of Stockton, near 
Gainsboro, Lincolnshire, 14 
miles from town of Horncas- 
tle, who died Sept. 15, 1788, 
aged 67. 



Charles Horncastle==Julia A. Burge, 
d. 1863. I b. June 13, 1805; 

| d. Oct. 16, 1901. 
Louisa Anna Horncastle==Octavius D. Deacon. 



42 GENEALOGY OF THE 

dale, Cape Colony. He married, November 13, 1865, 
Catherine Mary Ann Hitge.™ Issue as follows : 

226. Samuel Deacon, b. Aug. 31, 1866; d. Nov. 9, 1866. 

227. George Hitge Deacon, b. Sept. 28, 1867. 

228. Albert Deacon, b July 11, 1869. 

229. Plestina Ann Deacon, b. Oct. 7, 1871; d. Aug. 7, 1872. 

230. Gilbert D&acon, b. Sept. 5, 1873; d. May 9, 1874. 

231. Virginia Grace Deacon, b. Sept. 5, 1873. 

232. Walter Deacon, b. Sept. 24, 1875. 

233. Catherine Younger Deacon, b. Nov. 27, 1879. 

234. Emily Deacon, b. Feb. 12, 1883. 

235. Mary Ellen Deacon, b. Oct. 21, 1885. 

75. Catherine Anne Deacon, youngest daughter of 
Samuel and Virginia Grace (Scripps) Deacon, born 



30. Mrs. Deacon's grandfather, Hitge, a native of one of the 
Rhenish provinces, was impressed as a lad into Napoleon's army. The 
first night he did guard duty he was made a prisoner by the English. 
Like many others, he availed himself of the option of enlisting in an 
English regiment. His term of enlistment expired on the day that his 
regiment during one of the early Kaffir wars was landed in South 
Africa. He had become a favorite with the officers, and they assisted 
him to start a supply store in the camp where now stands the Liver- 
pool of South Africa, Port Elizabeth. He rapidly became wealthy. 

Among the South African settlers in 1820 was a Mrs. Hunt, whose 
husband had been lost overboard during the voyage. Mr. Hitge 
befriended her and finally married her. When Port Elizabeth was laid 
out Hitge was honored with the first choice of a building lot. On this 
he erected the Red Lion Hotel, which still stands. Being now worth 
some £30,000, he determined to return to his native country, but about 
this time the Boers, disgusted with the English government, which had 
emancipated their slaves, commenced their grand trek to the Trans- 
vaal, disposing of their farms in Cape Colony. The cheapness of land 
in consequence of this exodus led Hitge to change his plans, and 
instead of returning to Europe he bought 200,000 acres of land, upon 
which he settled his sons. Of this tract Mrs. Deacon's father inherited 
about 80,000 acres, all grazing lands, which in time was divided between 
his four sons. The elder Hitge finally retired to the beautiful village 
of Nitenhage, where he died. He was greatly respected for his strict 
integrity and high character. 

Mrs. Deacon's maternal grandfather was a Dr. John Younger. He 
settled in South Africa in 1820, and for many years followed his pro- 
fession at Nitenhage, where he was very much beloved by all classes 
for his kindness and generosity. He came of a race of doctors, Mr. 
Deacon fancies from Plaistow near ^.ondon, as his daughter Plestina 
Younger's name is understood to have been in some way associated 
with the doctor's ancestral home. 



SCRirPS FAMILY 43 

November 2, 1842; has devoted herself to education, 
literature and philanthropy; published in 1899 "Records 
of the Family of Deacon." 

77. Elizabeth Mary Scripps, daughter of James Mogg 
and Elizabeth (Sabey) Scripps, born in London April 23, 
1831; married May 1, 1858, at Nauvoo, 111., to Enoch 
David Thomas Sharp, son of Jesse Sharp, who was born 
in Ohio November 29, 1829. 31 He served in Co. A, 89th 
Illinois infantry, from August 12, 1862. He participated 
in the battles of Lawrenceburg, Perryville, Stone River 
and Chickamauga. At Stone River he was made prisoner 
and confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. Being 
exchanged, he rejoined his regiment and was again cap- 
tured at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. He was this 
time confined in the notorious stockade at Andersonville, 
Ga., where he died June 13, 1864. His grave in the 



31. Conjectural ancestry of E. D. T. Sharp: 

Thomas Sharp==Lydia Dickinson, 



b. in England m. 170L 

about 1680; 
settled in Strat- 
ford, Conn., 
1700; d. 1712. 



Thomas Sharp==Sarah Coser 
of Newtown, | 
Conn., b. 1702. 



Jesse Sharp== 
b. 1755. I 



Jesse Sharp==Rebecca Haines 



b. 1792, 
d. 1863 



of a New Jersey 
family; b. 1801, 
m. 1823 or 1824, 
d. Aug. 25, 1847, 



Enoch David Thomas Sharp==Ellzabeth Mary Scripps, 
b. in Ohio 1829, b. 1831. 

m. 1858, d. 1864. 

Note: The only ground for assuming the second Jesse Sharp to be the son of 
the first mentioned is the similarity of an unusual name and the recurrence of 
the old family name Thomas in the next generation. The first Jesse also had 
a son David. 



44 GENEALOGY OF THE 

Anderson ville National Cemetery is No. 1899. He left 
children as follows, both born at ISTauvoo: 

236. Jesse James Sharp, b. Oct. 19, 1859. 

237. Mary Rebecca Sharp, b. Nov. 2, 1861. 

79. James Edmund Scripps (James M., William A., 
William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in the 
parish of St. George's, Hanover Square, London, March 19, 
1835; taken to America in 1844; grew up on a farm at 
Rushville; received only country school education; went 
to Chicago 1857, and secured employment on the staff of 
the Chicago Tribune; removed to Detroit 1859, and in 
1862 became manager of the Detroit Tribune. Founded 
The Evening News August 23, 1873, and later became 
interested in newspapers in Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincin- 
nati and Chicago. Aided prominently in founding the 
Detroit Museum of Art, and in 1889 presented it with a 
collection of old masters costing $75,000. In 1891-3 built 
Trinity Reformed Episcopal church, at about the same 
cost. Served successively as a member of the Detroit Board 
of Park and Boulevard Commissioners, and on the Public 
Library Commission. Served a term in the State Senate, 
1903. Published "Five Months Abroad," 1881; "Memo- 
rials of the Scripps Family," 1891, and numerous 
pamphlets. Married, at Detroit, September 1G, 1862, 
Harriet Josephine Messinger, daughter of Hiram King and 
Mary Ann (Warren) Messinger, 32 who was born at Peru, 
Vt., December 31, 1838. Issue as follows: 

238. Ellen Warren Scripps, b. July 10, 1863. 

239. Anna Virginia Scripps, b. Mar. 5, 1866. 

240. James Francis Scripps, b. Mar. 26, 1870; d. Nov. 25, 1882. 

241. Harriet Mary Scripps, b. Nov. 19, 1873; d. Feb. 4, 1875. 

242. Grace Messinger Scripps, b. Dec. 11, 1878. 

243. William Edmund Scripps, b. May 6, 1882. 

80. Ellen Browning Scripps, second daughter of 
James Mogg and Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps, born in 
London October 18, 1836; educated at Knox College, 
Galesburg, III, class of 1859; engaged in teaching and 



s John Rogers, the Protestant martyr (1555); Michael 
'hillips Brooks, Bishop of Massac husetts. 



hn 
lug 



Michael 

Metcalf 

b. Norfolk 

England 



ihn 
ing 
>f 



Esther 
Bailey 



iah Mary- 



Robert 

and 

Margaret 

Ware 

(See fourth 

couple to the 

left.) 



Michael = Mary Edward John 

Metcalf Fairbanks Hawes Gay 

b. IKiO b. 

m. 1644 a .1 

d.1654 



John 
Ware 
of 
Dedham 
b.1646 
d.1718 



Mary 

Metcalf 

b. 646 

d. 1677 



Daniel Ahial Gay 



b. 1649 
d. 1677 



32. The following table gives the ancestry of Hiram K. M e ssinger so far as known. It will be observed that collaterally many notable names are included, as John Rogers, the Protestant martyr (1555); Michael 
Wiggles worth, the New England poet; Edward Everett, cam jiaate for President of the United States in 1860; Horace Mann, eminent educationist, and Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts. 



Hunting 
b.Engl'nd 


1597 


d.Ded- 


ham 1689 



John Rogers 

the martyr 

m. 1617 



Robert — rElizabeth Robert 



Fulle- 

of b. Kent 

Dorchester En BJand 



: Mary 

b.Eng'l'nd b.Engl'nd 

settled i: 

Dedhan 

1643 

d.1721 



John z^ Esther 



settled i 
1643 



b.Engl'nd 
d. Wren- 
tham 1704 



John r= Martha 



Wlgglesworth r= Ursula doles 



b. Boston 1667 

ancestor of 

Rt. Hev. Philips 



Rl ? h Ad Everett= 
or Vrenthani 
5 1683 
d 1746 



Rev. Samuelr=: Esther Wa 
b.1666 
m. 1673 
d. 1734 



Michael 
Melculf 
b. Norfolk 
England 
1686 



(Soolovitth d.lUM 



John 
(lay 
b. KM 
,1 .1088 



Daniel Fat 

b. 1G64 

m. 1691 

settled in 

Wrentham 169"> 



Hezekiah 
King 
d.1721 



Dedhan 
b. 1616 

d.1718 



Pelatiah Man =zjemima Farringto: 



er Ware 
. 1676 
.1700 



Kliomv.-m- IMossiiiger = 
l>. Huston 1697 

m. by Cotton Blather 

1719 

d. Wreuthain 1768 



Rebeooa Sweatees 

b. 1701 
d. 1762 



Jonathan Kverett 



Wlggleeworfh Messlnger 



Jemima 1' v 



Hezekiah King 

of Norton 

b. 1713 

d. 1741 



Jerusha Ware 

b. 1714 

m.1734 

d. after 1769 



Samuel King = 



Pelatlab afeeelnger 



a.Jan.l, 1799, d. 1814 



b. Rutland, Ma 



Messinger Mary Ann Warren 



d. Detroit, Mich. .Feb. 16," 



= James E. Scripps 



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il 


669'. 







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nn.d 

I .en 



i ■ 



'i xd .at 



W.b 









William = Elizabeth 



Woodburj 
b. 1589 
m. 1617 
d. 1677 



Patch 

b. 1593 



Richard = 
Palsgrave 
m. 1626 
d. 1630 



Joan 
Harris 



Richard 

Norman 
d.1683 



Idward Robert 
jarkin Hale 
r d. 1«52 d. 1659 



Joanna John 
Cutler Oher 
m. 1640 



Elizabeth 
Butcher 



Nicholas =Ann Pals- Robert = Margaret 



Wood- 
bury 
b. 1618 
d. 1686 



grave 
b. 1626 
d. 1701 



Morgan 
d. 1672 



Norman 



John 
Larkin 

b. 1640 
m. 1664 

d. 1677 



Joanne 
Hale 



Richard : 

Ober 

b.1641 
m. 1671 

d. 1716 



Abigail 
Wood- 
bury 
b. 1653 
d. 1742 



Samuel 
Morgan 

b. 1637 
m. 1658 

d.1698 



Elizabeth 
Dixey 
b. 1641 
d.1700 



Joanna Larkin 
b. 1676 



Hezekiah Ober 
b,16bl 
m. 1702 
d.1729 



i Thorn- 
ike 
1706 

. 1728 



Anna Ober 
b.1708 



82. (Continued.) Ancestry of Mary Ann "Warren : 



win ■■<■■■ 

Mi.i-i-iiuii 

■i. liar, 



thur Richard Wen 

irron llllilrolh Then 

1(188 b. 1(105 Whet 

11163 d. 1088 d. 10 



Robert 

Fletcher 
I.. J 592 



Ezekiel Willii 



John =^ Anne 



Major =. Mary 



Willnrd 
h. 10(15 

a.iim 



F./.okiel Willhu 
Richard- Under 



Sarah Benjamin Willi 

Pellet Butter- Und 

field woe 

d.1688 



Oapt. Remem- John 

>rance Thorn- 

Inder- dike 

wood b. 1603 



Kdward 




Larkin 


Hale 


d. 1«52 


d.1669 



Jacob = Ma 



nln Parker- S;, 



William = Lydil 



Flelche 
b. 1622 
m. 1045 
d.1677 



ah Howard 
b. 1601 

d. mi 



Captain = Re 



d.1704 Richard- 



aah Nathaniel:= Deborah Lient. 



Mallard 

Norman 

,1 1083 



Wood- 
but] 

b. ioih 



=Ann Piila. 



Lieut. William = Sarah Richard- Andrew Spalding 

Fletcher son b. 1652 

b. 1667 b. 1659 m. 1674 

m. 1677 d.1748 d.1113 



I'n.ler- 


Willian 




Pletohe 


b. HIM 


b. 1657 


d. 1691 


m. 1077 



Nathaniel But- = Sarah Fletche 
terfleld I b. 1679 

b. 1673 d.1784 

m. 1698 
d. 1749 



John 
Larkin 
l>. loin 



b. 1613 

m 1008 
d. 1701 



Captain John = 



RIcluird = Abigail 
Obei 
b. li-.ll 



H 


Morgan 

i.. iisr? 


bun 

b. MKI 


m, lam 


d. 1742 


5, row 



Hezeklnii Ober = Ann HO 

b. 1681 I h ItSS 



Joslah Fletouer=Joanna Spalding 



Lieut. Joseph z= Esther Rutter- 
Moors field 

b. 1704 b. 1703 

m. 1731 d. 1773 

d. 1776 



Captain Joseph r Joanna Fletcher 



Simeon Moon 
b.1732 
m. 1765 
d.1781 



Joanna Thor 



b. 1701 
m. 1779 
d. 1K36 



...-., 1766; served 
Revolutionary 
Wur; d.1841 

Jesse Warren = Betsey Jaoks< 
b. » estminster. i 
M.". Jan. 23, 
1784; ra.lS07; d. 



b. I>edham.l>ec.l8. 

W;i».)b,5,ra ; 

d. Detroit. 

April 26. 1897 



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John 
Smith 
settled 
Water- 
town, 
Mass., 
ante 1636 



Isabel 


Koger = 





Porter 


b.1579 


b. Eng- 


d.1639 


land 1583; 




d. Water- 




town, 




Mass., 1664 



Grace 

Coolidge 

d. 1662 



mi el 
nith 
Eng- 

md; 
1660 



: Elizabeth Chris- 

Porter topher 

Grant 



Mary 



Robert of 
Aldie 
Baron 
Fowlis 



[ary David Comee r=r Elizabeth 

rant b. Scotland; 

1648 killed at Sud- d. 1671 

bury battle, 1676 



William Munroe=: Martha 

b. Scotland 1625; 

exiled and sold m. 1665 

as servant 1652; 
d. 1717 



John Comee = Martha Munroe 



b. Woburn 
1665 



Lexington 
1729 



b. 1667 



(Continued.) Ancestry of Betsey Jackson, mother of Mary Ann Warren: 

Thomas 
Tro w- 



.loli 



b. Devon, b. De 



Jilckeon 
of White- 



Clarke 
in. 157H 
d.1630 



topher 
Jackson 
d. London 



Thomas : 

d. Rox- 
bury, 1684 



William 

Ward 
b. Eng- 



b. 1626 

in MSI 
d.1708 



Edward 

b. 1604 
emigrated 



Roger Sarah 



Sebas = 

b.1642 
d. Newton 
1690i serv- 
ed in King 
Philip's 
War 





— Hannah 


Green- 


Ward 




b. 1651 


b. Eng- 


d.ante 168 


land 1643; 




m. 1670; 




d. Newton 





Edward = Mary 

Jackson 

b. Newton b. 1665 



Isaac Jackson 
b. Newton 1701 

m. 1723 

d. 1769 



Josiah Jackson 
b. Newton 1730 

m. 1765 

d. Westminster 

1778 



Conant 




William 




m. 1618 




of Bever- 






ly, Mass.; 




Eng., d. 


governor 






of Cape 










Mass., 166 


Colony; 






b. 1591 






d. 1679 







Thomas 


Gen. — 


Trow- 


Humph- 




rey Ather- 


settlel 


ton 




b. ante 1615 


it, )1;»<., 


d. 1661 


d. 167! 





Lot 
Conant 

ti. 1624 
d. 1674 



Reverend = Elizabeth 



Andrew : 

Manslield 
b. 1623 



John =^ Elizabeth 



b.1586 


Peirce 
b. Eng- 
land 1688; 

1637: d. 


d. 1678 








Water- 




town 1661 



: Isabel 

b. 1679 
d.M39 


Roger r= 
Porter 
b. Eng- 
land IfWt; 

d. \Vi,i„,'- 




MasH.,'lc!6l 



= Elizabeth 
Walton 
b. 1629 



b. Nor- 

""liM; \\!" 



Elizabeth Ohrls. = 

Porter tophor 



A Idle 
II, nun 
li'owlis 



Bethiah 

Mansfield 

b.1058 
m. 1678 
d. 1720 



John Darby Deborah Conant 



b. Beverly 171.17 

m. 1728 
d. Westminster 



Klizatieth 1'atch 
b. 1711 
d.1800 



David Cornea := Kli/.nlml li 
b. Scotland i 
killed at Suit- 
bury buttle, 1676 



William Muiiron 
I.. Sella... I llf.'l., 



b. M74 

in. 17112 
.1.1747 



b. 1706 
m. 172X 
d. 1776 



th 


John Oomeo = 

1), SVoburn 

1665 

in. MHH 

d. Lexington 

1729 


— Martha 
b. 1 


Abigail Come 
b. 1707 







1736; d. West- 
minster 1828; 



Mary Peirce 
b. Sept. 6. 1760 
d. Mar. 17, 1833 



d. April, 1816 



Betsey Jackson = Jesse War 
b. Aug. 5. 1790 I 
m. Sept. 20, 1807, d. 
Pitchburg, Oct. 24, 
1876 

Mary Ann Warren==Hi 



Harriet J. Messinger=James E. Scripps 



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SCRIPPS FAMILY 45 

later in journalism at Detroit. Settled in California about 
1891; took up a ranch at Miramar, and built South Molton 
Villa at La Jolla, San Diego Co., where she resides. 

81. William Armiger Scripps (James M., William 
A., William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born at 
Chelsea, England, July 14, 1838; brought up on farm at 
Rushville; engaged in printing business in Detroit; made 
trip around the world 1888-9, after which he settled in 
California. In 1902 visited Hawaii, New Zealand, Aus- 
tralia, the Philippines, China and Japan. Married, May 
24, 1869, Ambrosia Clarinda Sutherland, nee Antisdel, 
who was born September 4, 1847. 33 She died in Detroit 
April 6, 1894. On August 28, 1895, he married, at 
Frankfort, Me., Katharine Peirce. 34 Children by first 
marriage as follows : 

244. Florence May Scripps, b. May 8, 1870. 

245. Ellen Winifred Scripps, b. June 27, 1873. 

82. George Henry Scripps, third son of James Mogg 
and Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps, born at Chelsea, Eng- 
land, August 14, 1839 ; brought up on farm at Rushville ; 
served in Co. B, 27th Michigan infantry, in the War of 
the Rebellion ; participated in the Vicksburg campaign ; 
discharged for disability, November, 1863; settled in 
Detroit in 1873, and became interested in neAvspaper prop- 
erties, amassing a considerable fortune. He died unmar- 
ried, April 13, 1900, and is buried at Rushville. 

83. John Mogg Scripps, youngest son of James Mogg 
and Ellen Mary (Saunders) Scripps, born in London 
November 24, 1840; brought up on farm at Rushville; 
enlisted in Co. B, 27th Michigan infantry, in 1862; par- 
ticipated in the Vicksburg campaign, and was killed at 
the battle of Blue Springs, or Lick Creek, Tennessee, 

33. Ambrosia C. Antisdel was born in Brooklyn, Mich. Her mother's 
name was Freelove Spink and she was a native of New York state. 
Her father, grandfather and greatgrandfather were all John Antisdels 
and all natives of New York state. The family is said to be of English 
origin, and the name to have originally been spelled Antisdale. 



4 6 



GENEALOGY OF THE 



October 10, 1863. His grave in the Knoxville National 
Cemetery is No. 1803. 

84. Julia Anne Scripps, eldest daughter of James M. 
and Julia A. (Osborn) Scripps, born in Rushville, 111., 
June 8, 1847; died unmarried at La Jolla, Cal., September 
11, 1898. Her remains were cremated and ashes interred 
at Rushville- — the first instance of cremation in the family. 
For 25 years disabled by rheumatism, she yet possessed a 
clear mind and considerable literary ability. 

86. Frederick Tudor Scripps (James M., William A., 
William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in 
Rushville NoA^ember 15, 1850; married at Merton, Cal., 
December 21, 1893, to Sarah Emma Jessop, daughter of 
Joseph and Mary Jessop, of Miramar, Cal., who was born 



34. Ancestry of Katharine Peirce 
Capt. Michael Peirce== Capt 



b. in England ab. 
1615; emigrated ab. 
1645; killed in en- 
gagement with 
Narragansett Indians 
1676. 



I 
Capt. Benjamin Peirce==Martha Adams, 
b. 1648, d. 1730. 



John Pike= 
b. in England 
1605, emigrated 
1635. 



Joseph Pike==Susanna Kingsbury, 
b. 1638, 
d. 1694. 



Benjamin Peirce==Mary Cowen. 
b. 1683, d. 1772. 



Benjamin Peirce==Jane Hay-ward. 
b. 1721, d. 1768. I 



Thomas Pike==Sarah Little, 
b. 1681, 
d. 1750. 



John Pike==Sarah Moody, 
b. 1710, 
d. 1755. 



Capt. Hayward Peirce==Judith Bailey. Joseph Pike= 
b. 1753, d. 1S26. b. 1751, 

d. 1830. 



=L.ois Tenney. 



Waldo Peirce==Catherine Treat, 
b. 1778, d. 1841. b. 17S3, d. 1863. 



Elijah P. Pike==Nancy Sampson, 
b. 17S8, d. 1863. I d. 1S68. 



Geo. Albert Peirce==Louisa T. Pike, 
b. 1812, d. 1S73. b. 1S24. 



Katharine Peirce==William A. Scripps. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



47 



in Highburton, Yorkshire, England, December 20, 1872. 
Issue as follows, all born at Miramar : 

246. Thomas Osborn Scripps, b. Aug. 19, 1894. 

247. Julia Mary Scripps, b. Dec. 16, 1897. 

248. Annie Jessop Scripps, b. Nov. 20, 1901. 

88. Edward Wyllis Scripps (James M., William A., 
William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in 
Rushville June 18, 1854; engaged in journalism in Detroit, 
1873 ; participated in the founding of the Cleveland, O., 
Press, Cincinnati, O., Post, St. Louis Chronicle, and other 
papers; is, 1903, part owner in at least 15 different news- 
paper properties; traveled in Europe in 1878, 1882 and 
1897; settled in Miramar, Cal., about 1892, where he 
improved a large fruit ranch and took an active part in 
public affairs; married at Westchester, O., October 7, 1885, 
Nackie Benson Holtsinger, daughter of Rev. Samuel King 
Holtsinger, D. D., who was born at Sharon, O., July 19, 
1866. 35 Issue as follows: 



249. 
250. 
251. 
252. 
2, 1899. 
253. 
254. 



James George Osborn Scripps, b. July 19, 1886. 

John Paul Holtsinger Scripps, b. Aug. 9, 1888. 

Dorothy Blair Scripps, b. Feb. 24, 1890. 

Edward Wyllis McLean Scripps, b. Sept. 25, 1891; d. Aug. 

Robert Naclde Scripps. b. Oct. 27, 1895. 
Julia Margaret Scripps, b. May 16, 1898. 



35. Ancestry of Nackie B. Holtsinger: 

John Holtsinger^Elizabeth Patton Richard Roberta 



of Scotch-Irish 
descent 



whose father 
came from Ger- 
many: b. in Pa. 
Settled in Wash- 
ington Co-.Tenn. 

r~ 

Rev. John Patton Holtsinger= 
educated Washington Co)., 
Tenn.; 40 years minister of 
U. P. church; chaplain 1st 
East Tenn. Cavalry, com- 
manded by sons of President 
Johnson and Parson Brown- 
low; d. 1875 



A large land and 
slave owner 



=Nackie Roberts 



Charles Decatur Housel=Nareissa Mc 
Lean 



Rev. Samuel King Holtsinger, D. D. ^Margaret O. Housel 
b. Dec. 22, 1838 I 

m. Sept. 25, 1865 



Nackie Benson Holtsinger^Edward W. Scripps. 
b. July 19, 1866 



48 GENEALOGY OF THE 

89. Mary Emma Scripps, daughter of John Dixie and 
Emma Elizabeth (Rice) Scripps, born March 18, 1840; 
married, February 27, 1862, to Charles Gardner, of Lon- 
don, who was born in Deptford, Kent, in 1836. 36 Issue as 
follows, all born in London : 

255. Charles Graham Gardner, b. Jan. 30, 1863. 

256. Mary Emma Gardner, b. Jan. 12, 1864; d. Feb. 3, 1866. 

257. Ruth Margaret Gardner, b. Aug. 2, 1865. 

258. Maude Mary Gardner, b. Aug. 15, 1867. 

259. Constance Mary Gardner, b. May 31, 1869. 

260. Ernest Arthur Gardner, b. April 10, 1871. 

261. Hilda Mary Gardner, b. Dec. 22, 1872. 

262. William Alan Gardner, b. Nov. 17, 1874. 

263. Jessie Sarah Gardner, b. May 27, 1876. 

264. Helen Mary Gardner, b. June 2, 1878. 

265. Harold Charles Gardner, b. Jan. 28, 1880. 

266. Godfrey Derman Gardner, b. Feb. 5, 1882. 

267. Gerard Charles Gardner, b. Aug. 18, 1884. 

268. Stephen Gardner, b. Aug. 13, 1887; d. Aug. 15, 1887. 

91. Harriet Jane Scripps, second daughter of Thomas 
and Harriet (Farnworth) Scripps, born in London Feb- 
ruary 1, 1845; educated at King's College, London; for 

3G. Ancestry of Charles Gardner: 
Franklin Gardner==Margaret Grimmitt. William Suter==Sarah Knights, 



Government 
contractor. 



dau. of a 
mayor of 
Norwich. 



I 
Charles Graham Gardner==Sarah Suter. 
b 1808. 

Charles Gardner==Mary Emma Scripps. 
Franklin Gardner was born in America, whither his father had 
emigrated. He followed the sea and commanded one of the transports 
which brought off the remains of Sir John Moore's army after the 
retreat at Corunna in 1809. His was the last ship to sail from the 
Spanish port and first to arrive in the British channel. His son Char-les 
Graham Gardner took up music as a profession and studied under 
Moschelles, Cramer, Horsely and Samuel Wesley. He then devoted 
himself to teaching, and numbered among his pupils H. R. H. the Duke 
of Connaugh, then Prince Arthur, whom he frequently attended at 
Osborne House. His son Charles Gardner played in public at the early 
age of seven years; has been a director of the Philharmonic Society 
since 1884, an active member of the Bach Society, member of the Coun- 
cil of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and one of the leading 
professors of the Guildhall School of Music. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 49 

some years, in connection with her sister, Frances E., 
conducted a school for boys in London and later at Bexhill, 
Sussex; has written much for magazines and published 
several juvenile books of fiction, one, "A Little Handful,'' 
first published in 1894, has passed through several editions. 
The hero of this story is William E. Scripps, No. 243 of 
this record. 

94. Charles Earnworth Scripps (Thomas, William A., 
William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born June 
9, 1850; married at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, 
February 7, 1880, Frances Louisa Johnson, eldest daugh- 
ter of Alfred Johnson, of Marylebone parish, who was 
born September 28, 1858. He succeeded his father in 
the news agency business at 13 South Molton street, a 
business founded in 1785. Died suddenly, November 16, 
1902. Children as follows, all born in South Molton 
street : 

269. Charles Herbert Scripps, b. Mar. 17, 1881. 

270. Margaret Ethel Scripps. b. May 18, 1883. 

271. Thomas Frank Scripps, b. Sept. 6, 1890. 

95. George Farnworth Scripps (Thomas, William A., 
William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born June 
29, 1852; married, at Brixton, September 6, 1876, Jane 
Sharman, daughter of Charles Sharman, of Loddington, 
Northamptonshire, who was born September 12, 1853. 
Issue as follows : 

272. Grace Mary Scripps, b. Oct. 1, 1877. 

273. Arthur Frederick George Scripps, b. April 18, 1879. 
2-74. Gertrude Jane Scripps, b. Oct. 14, 1880. 

275. Annie Muriel Scripps, b. Aug. 3, 1882; d. Feb. 8, 1884. 

97. William Henry Scripps (Thomas, William A., 
William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born June 15, 1859 ; 
educated for the bar; spent a year in Detroit in 1890-1: 
then settled in his profession in Canterbury; married, 
April 16, 1901, Edith Olivia Leake, daughter of William 



50 GENEALOGY OF THE 

A. and Mary Gertrude (Craddock) Leake, who was born 
in London August 22, 1873. Issue: 

276. Mary Kathleen Scripps, b. Jan. 10, 1902. 

101. Emma Grace Scripps, daughter of John Corrie 
and Emma (Truett) Scripps, born August 21, 1859 ; mar- 
ried in Eushville, 111., April 11, 1901, to Frank L. 
IJemphilJ, of De Soto, Iowa, who was born in Alica, Ind., 
March 9, 1857. 

103. Minerva Scripps, daughter of John Corrie and 
Emma (Truett) Scripps, born May 26, 1862; married, 
February 22, 1889, to John L. Houston, of Rushville, who 
was born September 4, 1860. Issue as follows: 

277. Ruth Houston, b. Mar. 16, 1892. 

278. Henry Scripps Houston, b. May 21, 1895. 

279. Walter Owens Houston, b. May 3, 1896. 

108. Corrie Scripps, youngest daughter of John 
Come and Emma (Truett) Scripps, born July 14, 1875 ; 
married at De Soto, Iowa, October 23, 1900, to Frederick 
Hudson Beebee, who was born at Beebeetown, Iowa, 
September 14, 1874. Issue : 

280. Frederick Scripps Beebee, b. Aug. 18, 1901. 

109. John William Chase, eldest son of Edmund P. 
and Eliza (Scripps) Chase, born January 21, 1848; 
married at Des Moines, Iowa, January 11, 1877, Flora 
Bell McCain, who was born at Knightstown, Ind., January 
20, 1855. She died ISTovember 21, 1881, leaving one child: 

281. Margaret Agnes Chase, b. Aug. 17, 1878. 

111. Charles Rich Chase, second son of Edmund P. 
and Eliza (Scripps) Chase, born at Beardstown, 111. Mem- 
ber of the firm of Chase & West, furniture dealers, Des 
Moines. 

112. Mary Elizabeth Chase, second daughter of 
Edmund P. and Eliza (Scripps) Chase, born at Beardstown 
September 13, 1853; married at Des Moines ? December 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 5 1 

16, 1873, to Harry West, son of Francis and Frances 
West, who was bom in Pennsylvania September 3, 1850. 
Issue as follows : 

282. Frances Eliza West, b. Sept. 19, 1877. 

283. Edmund Chase West, b. Dec. 15, 1887. 

114. Edmund Corrie Chase, third son of Edmund P. 
and Eliza (Scripps) Chase, born at Beardstown, 111., April 
13, 1858; married at Des Moines, June 6, 1888, Katherine 
Mills, daughter of Frank and Anna Mills, who was born 
at Des Moines February 16, 1865. Issue: 

284. Katharine Chase, b. Feb. 23, 1890. 

285. Edmund Parker Chase, b. April 24, 1894. 

115. William Henry Scripps Chase, fourth son of 
Edmund P. and Eliza (Scripps) Chase, born at Beards- 
town, 111., January 8, 1860; married at Des Moines, 
January 11, 1887, to Clara Iowa Givin, daughter of John 
and Margaret Givin, who was born at Keokuk, Iowa, 
August 28, 1862. Issue : 

286. John Givin Chase, b. Nov. 3, 1887. 

W. H. S. Chase is the senior partner in the large gro- 
cery house of H. S. Chase & Co., of Des Moines, having 
more than a dozen branches in that city. 

118. "William Parker Chase, seventh son of Edmund 
P. and Eliza (Scripps) Chase, born at Beardstown August 
6, 1870; married, June 8, 1897, Nellie Rawson, daughter 
of Dr. Charles and Mary Rawson, of Des Moines, who 
was born November 7, 1874. 

119. Cleon Fleece Sweeney, eldest son of Joshua M. 
and Mary Margaret (Scripps) Sweeney, born in Rushville 
January 7, 1854; spent some years in the mining districts 
of the Black Hills, when gold was first discovered there; 
then was long connected with the publishing department 
of the Cincinnati Post. He married, August 18, 188], 
Eva Maria Parrotte, daughter of James H. Parrotte, of 
Rushville, and later of Omaha. No issue. 



52 GENEALOGY OF THE 

120. John Scripps Sweeney, second son of Joshua M. 
and Mary Margaret (Scripps) Sweeney, born in Rushville 
August 12, 1855; settled in Detroit in the newspaper 
publishing business in 1874; participated in the founding 
of the Cleveland Press, 1878, and later founded the 
Indianapolis Sun and Baltimore World; a champion in 
golf, tennis and other sports, and an enthusiastic disciple 
of Izaak Walton; married, June 3, 1885, Elizabeth 
Stanley, daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Bragg) Stanley, 
of Cleveland, O., who was born January 29, 1866. Issue 
as follows : 

287. Stanley Scripps Sweeney, b. April 6, 1886; d. Nov. 28, 1886. 

288. Mary Margaret Sweeney, b. April 24, 1889. 

289. Eliza Stanley Sweeney, b. June 18, 1890; d. Feb. 14, 1892. 

290. John Scripps Sweeney, b. Sept. 21, 1894. 

121. Jessie Sanders Sweeney, only daughter of 
Joshua M. and Mary Margaret (Scripps) Sweeney, born 
in Rushville December 10, 1858; educated at Wesleyan 
University, Bloomington, 111. ; married, October 8, 1890, 
to Dexter Wakefield Corley, son of Benjamin W. F. and 
Lois (Wakefield) Corley, who was born in Coldspring, 
Shelby Co., 111., March 31, 1858. Issue as follows : 

291. John Scripps Corley, b. in Sioux City, la., Dec. 27, 1891. 

125. Elizabeth Nichols Scripps Speed, youngest 
daughter of Dr. Joshua N. and Anne Virginia Ellen 
(Scripps) Speed, born in Rushville December 2, 1871; 
educated at De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind. ; mar- 
ried October 14, 1903, to Everett Ress McFadden, banker 
of Chicago, who was born October 27, 1868. 37 

126. Eliza Agnes Sweeney, daughter of Charles H. 
and Maria (Scripps) Sweeney, born at Rushville September 

37. Ancestry of Everett R. McFadden : 
Michael McFadden = Mary Bruen John 0'Hare=Susan Bradley 

b.Oct. 8, 1789 I b. Sept. 12, 1793 b. 1808 I b.1810 

d. July 12, 1828 | d.Aug. 1,1859 d. 1845 d. 1842 

Michael McFadden=Margaret O'Hare 
b. July 1, 1827 I b. Mar. 20, 1840 

m. Sept. 24, 1861 

Everett Ress McFadden=:Elizabeth N. S. Scripps 
b. Oct. 27, 1868 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 53 

1, 1869; married, October 19, 1892, to William Shaw 
Howell, son of Robert and Mary Howell, who was born at 
Port Hope, Ont., July 17, 1803. Issue as follows: 

292. Marie Howell, b. Dec. 7, 1894. 

293. William Shaw Howell, b. Oct. 26, 1899. 

294. Frederick Mash Howell, b. Oct. 8, 1900; d. April 21, 1901. 

129. John Locke Scripps (William H. B., John, Will- 
iam, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Chicago 
October 17, 1866; married at Greencastle, Ind., January 
26, 1903, Frances Ashton Arnold, who was born at Green- 
castle August 12, 1877, graduated at De Pauw University 
1900, and taught in the Rushville High School 1901. 38 

130. George Henry Little Scripps (William H. B., 
John, William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born 
February 22, 1869; married, June 12, 1894, to Amy 
Hamilton Patterson, 39 daughter of James March Patter- 

38. Ancestry of Frances Ashton Arnold: 
John Ames Arnold=Elizabeth Susan Ashton Esther Susannah Nash=Charles Boley 



b. England, b. London. Ont., b. Philadelphia, 

Oct. 9, 1819 July 21, 1823 Jan. 12, 1826 

m. May 1, 1852 



native of 
Stuttgart, 
Germany 



Francis Ames Arnold=Elizabeth Nash Boley 
b. London, Ont., b. Philadelphia, 

Feb. 19, 1845 Jan. 22, 1857 

m. Mar. 10, 1875 

Frances Ashton Arnold=^=John Locke Scripps. 
39. Ancestry of Amy Hamilton Patterson: 

William Hamilton Dr. Isaac Chenery=Susannah Pierce 
b. 1742 I b. 1748 

m.1768 

John March=Catherine Joseph — Margaret Dr. Thaddeus— Mary Dodd 



Mather Hamilton 



McClellan Chenery ] b."l770 

b. 1769 
m.1794 



John =Nancy James = Eliza William=Ann Mary William Dodd=Abigail 

w'fJS? 11 v~ ^T Ma £S£ I Drennan Hamiltonl Sours Chenery I Partridge 

b. 1785 b.178- m.1804 b. 1799 b. 1799 b. 1796 b. 1802 

d - 1814 | d. 1876 | m. 1825 | d. 1880 

William Patterson=Margaret March Emmanuel Hamilton = Anne Jane Chenery 

T b -, ^"tooi I d. April 13, 1882 b. Oct. 25, 1822 I b. July 23, 1829 

m. July ZL 1831 m . Feb. 8, 1849 

d. Feb. 19, 1873 | d. Jan. 28, 1896 

James March Patterson=Mary Abbie Hamilton 
b. Dec. 25, 1846 I b. May 4, 1851 

m. June 9, 1870 

Amy Hamilton Patterson=Geo. H. L. Scripps. 
b. April 1. 1871 
m. June 12, 1894 



54 GENEALOGY OF THE 

son, banker of Rushville, who was born April 1, 1871. 
Issue : 

295. Mary Locke Scripps, b. May 2, 1895. 

296. Margaret Elizabeth Scripps, b. Feb. 2, 1899. 

131. Mary Scripps, daughter of William H. and Mary 
Caroline (Johnson) Scripps, born in Astoria, 111., June 19, 
1849; married, August 9, 1871, to Rev. Lyman Calvin 
Gray, who was born at South Wales, Erie Co., N. Y., 
October 26, 1843. She died June 14, 1891. Issue as 
follows, the first two born at Auburn, 1ST. Y., the others 
at Fort Dodge, Iowa : 

297. William Calvin Gray, b. June 19, 1872. 

298. George Henry Gray, b. Feb. 14, 1874; d. Mar. 5, 1879. 

299. James Johnson Gray, b. July 8, 1876. 

300. John Lyman Gray, b. Nov. 8, 1878. 

301. Harley Winter Gray, b. Dec. 10, 1881. 

302. Mary Caroline Gray, b. Jan. 4, 1886. 

303. Lida Frances Gray, b. Sept. 13, 1888. 

132. William Scripps (William H., George H., Will- 
iam, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Astoria, 
111., February 19, 1851; married, December 28, 1880, 
Emma Cummings, who was born in Astoria July 14, 1851. 
She died September 11, 1894. Issue, a daughter: 

304. Wayne Scripps, b. Aug. 6, 1883. 

William Scripps then married, December 7, 1899, Alma 
Lovell, who was born near Astoria September 7, 1867. 

136. John Scripps (William H., George H., William, 
William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Astoria, 111., 
March 26, 1861; married, March 21, 1894, Laura Hett- 
rick, who was born near Macomb, 111., January 7, 1871, 
and died August 15, 1901. 

137. Winter Scripps (William H., George H., Will- 
iam, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in Astoria, 
111., March 23, 1864; married to Jennie Zoll. Issue as 
follows : 

305. William Winter Scripps, b. Nov. 7, 1899. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 55 

138. George Blanchard Scripps (John L., George H., 
William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in 
Chicago September 20, 1849; educated at Illinois State 
University; married at Astoria, 111., November 21, 1874, 
Fannie M. Hudnall, who was born near Rnsselville, Ky., 
January 9, 1854. He followed a mercantile career in 
Burlington, Kas., Omaha and Chicago. He died at Evans- 
ton, 111., November 18, 1902. Children as follows, all 
born in Burlington, Kas. : 

306. Grace Bernice Scripps, b. Mar. 30, 1875; d. Dec. 27, 1878. 

307. Charles Locke Scripps, b. Oct. 8, 1877. 

308. Dwight Blanchard Scripps, b. Dec. 26, 1880; d. Feb. 23, 
1889. 

309. Mabel Ethelind Scripps, b. Nov. 24, 1882. 

310. Earl Hudnall Scripps, b. June 20, 1886. 

140. Grace Locke Scripps, second daughter of John 
Locke and Mary Elizabeth (Blanchard) Scripps, born at 
Chicago September 13, 1863; educated at Northwestern 
University, Evanston, 111. ; married at Evanston on October 
8, 1896, to Frank Berry Dyche, son of George Fletcher 
and Hannah (Berry) Dyche, who was born at Mt. Pleasant, 
Iowa, February 18, 1858, and graduated from Northwest- 
ern Universitv 1880, and the Northwestern Law School 
1883. 

141. George William Parrotte, eldest son of Josiah 
and Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville 
July 27, 1837; served throughout the War of the Rebellion 
in Co. G, 16th Illinois infantry; was promoted to be second 
lieutenant; participated in Gen. Sherman's grand march 
through the heart of the confederacy in 1864; married, 
December 17, 1873, to Lizzie Wishard. She died March 
2, 1876, and he on September 24 of the same year, leaving 
no issue. 

142. Nancy Maria Parrotte, eldest daughter of Josiah 
and Catherine A. (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville 
July 29, 1839; married, November, 1857, to William H. 
McAllister. He served in the war of 1861-5, going out as- 



56 GENEALOGY OF THE 

captain of Co. G, 16th Illinois infantry. At Macon, Mo., 
he received five bullet wounds and was reported killed, 
but subsequently recovered, when he was appointed pay- 
master with rank of major, and was stationed at New 
Orleans where he served till the close of the war. He 
died September 1, 1871, and his wife August 27, 1877. 
Issue as follows : 

311. Catherine Elizabeth McAllister, b. Nov. 18, 1858. 

312. Susie Parrotte McAllister, b. Feb. 26, 1860; d. Sept. 27, 
1863. 

143. Sarah Lucretia Parrotte, second daughter of 
Josiah and Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in 
Rushville March 28, 1841; married, July 7, 1866, to 
Albert Beard Clarke, son of Rev. John Clarke of Rush- 
ville, who was born July 5, 1840. - 4 She died November 
30, 1885, and he August 17, 1890, leaving no issue. 
Albert B. Clarke served in the war of 1861-5 in regiments 
operating chiefly in Missouri and Tennessee. 

144. Lydia Frances Parrotte, third daughter of 
Josiah and Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in 
Rushville October 30, 1842 ; married, September 17, 1867, 
to George Clinton Ray, son of Hon. William H. Ray, 
Member of Congress from the 10th district of Illinois. 
Issue as follows : 

313. William Henry Ray, b. Nov. 7, 1868. 

314. Anna Parrotte Ray, b. Feb. 20, 1871. 

315. George Clinton Ray, b. Sept. 8, 1873. 

316. Mary Catherine Ray, b. Jan. 14, 1876. 

145. Josiah Locke Parrotte, second son of Josiah and 
Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville 
November 16, 1844; served in Co. K, 137th Illinois 
infantry; participated in an engagement with Gen. For- 
rest on August 21, 1864; married, December 12, 1866, 
to Mary Lewis Worthington, daughter of Rowland Madison 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



57 



Worthington, M. I)., of Kushville, who was born in 
Kushville January 26, 1844. 40 Issue as follows: 

317. Anne Katherine Parrotte, b. Oct. 14, 1867. 

146. Lewis Watts Parrotte, third son of Josiah and 
Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville, 111., 
October 15, 1S46; married October 15, 1898, to Mrs. 
Eeana Temple ; cattle rancher in South Dakota. 

147. Agnes Catherine Parrotte, fourth daughter of 
Josiah and Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in 
Kushville September 28, 1848; married, January 4, 1871, 
to Simon P. Mclntyre, of Chicago. She died June 28, 
1880, and he in August, 1898. Issue : 

318. Moses Dwight Mclntyre, b. Oct. 12, 1877. 



40. Ancestry of Mary Lewis Worthing-ton: 
Ambrose Mad ison=Frances Taylor* Andrew Lewi?=Mary Calhoun 

James Madison^Nellie Conway John Lewisf=Margaret Lynn 

John Madisont=Agatha Strother Gen. Andrew Lewis**= 

I J 

,TT Sa R uel = Mary Rowland= Anna Robert = Ann 

Worthington j Tolley Madison I Lewis Wells I Wheeler 

Edward Worthington=Eliza Given Madison Rensselaer Wells=Esther Perkins 

Rowland Mad ison=Ann Maria Charles^Susan F 

Worthington Wells Wells I Lawson 

b. 1828 | 
Mary Lewis = Josiah L. Lizzie=Charles S. 

Worthington Parrotte Wells Parrotte 

♦Frances Taylor was grandmother to James Madison, 4th President of the 
United States, and great-aunt to Zachary Taylor, our 12th President. 
tJohn Madison was a younger brother of President James Madison. 
tJohn Lewis came to the colony of Virginia with a romantic history. Born 
of well-to-do parents, of Huguenot descent, in 1678, he was In 1730 a lessee of 
lands in Donegal county, Ireland, held in fee by one Charles, Lord Conmith- 
garin, a dissolute, overbearing and altogether disreputable nobleman, but 
possessed of influential family connections. This landlord undertook arbitrarily 
and forcibly to evict Lewis, and at the head of a body of armed retainers made 
the attempt. Lewis and his sons made a stout resistance and in the affray 
several Wire killed, including Lord Conmithgarin and a brother of Lewis. John 
Lewis was indicted for murder, and all the influences of the landlord interest 
were enlisted against him. Escaping, he fled to Portugal. Meantime his friends 
took up the case, collected evidence, submitted it to the Privy Council, and in 
the end George II. issued a full pardon to Lewis. In recognition of the injuries 
he had suffered his pardon was accompanied by a grant of crown lands in the 
Shenandoah valley, where he settled with his family in 1732. They were the 



58 



GENEALOGY OF THE 



149. Charles Samuel Parrotte, fifth son of Josiah 
and Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville 
May 17, 1853; married, October 6, 1884, to Lizzie 
Wells. 40 He died September 9, 1894, without issue. 

150. "Walter Lee Parrotte, sixth son of Josiah and 
Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville 
March 23, 1855; married, November 28, 1880, to Mary 
E. TunniclifT, who was born at Macomb, 111., October 11, 
1855; founder of the Taylor & Parrotte Company of Chi- 
cago, manufacturers and jobbers of hats and caps. 

151. Marcus Lindsay Parrotte, youngest son of Josiah 
and Catherine Anne (Scripps) Parrotte, born in Rushville 
April 2, 1858; married, May 20, 1885, Mary H. Hamer, 
who was born March 12, 1863, at Hamertown, Pa. 

158. George Clarke Scripps (George W., George H., 
William, AVilliam, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born at 

first whites to settle in that region, and of course experienced all the hardships 
and hazards of frontier life. John Lewis died there, and lies buried on a hilltop 
overlooking Lewis river, about two miles east of Staunton, Va., of which place 
he was the founder. His tombstone bears the inscription: 

Here lies the remains of 

John Lewis, 

Who slew the Irish Lord, 

Settled Augusta County, 

Located the Town of Staunton, 

And furnished five sons to fight 

The battles of the American Revolution. 

He was born in Donegal County, Ireland, 

in 167S, and died 1st February, 1762. 

**Andrew Lewis was born in Ireland in 17-0 and left a name brightly inscribed 
on the pages of colonial and revolutionary history. With his brothers he early 
became conspicuous in the frontier struggles with the Indians. He was with 
Washington at the surrender of Fort Necessity, and at Braddock's defeat in 
1755. He commanded the Sandy Creek expedition in 1756, and in 175S was made 
prisoner by the French and taken to Montreal. In 1768 he served as commis- 
sioner from Virginia to conclude a treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix, 
N. Y. In 1774 as Brigadier-General he commanded at the battle of Point Pleas- 
ant, at the mouth of the Great Kanawha river, and gained a decisive victory 
over the Shawnee confederacy under the celebrated Indian Chief Cornstalk. He 
was Major in Washington's Virginia regiment at the outbreak of the Revolution, 
and was so highly esteemed by the Father of his Country for courage, skill and 
chivalrous character that when he became Commander-in-Chief of the Conti- 
nental army one of his first acts was to recommend Lewis for promotion to the 
rank of Major-General, to which he was commissioned March 1, 1776. His statue 
occupies one of the pedestals of the Washington monument in Richmond, Va. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 59 

Rushville December 20, 1851; married at Detroit, Decem- 
ber 20, 1876, Anna Adelaide Mattice, who was born at 
Osnabrook, Ont., October 16, 1852. 41 Issue as follows, 
all born in Detroit : 

319. Jessie Adelaide Scripps, b. Sept. 13, 1877. 

320. George Mattice Scripps, b. Nov. 23, 1880. 

321. Sarah Adele Scripps, b. May 17, 1885. 

322. Edith Clarke Scripps, b. Mar. 30, 1889. 

161. Ernest O'Hearn Scripps (George W., George 
H., William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in 
Rushville February 1, 1858; married, June 16, 1880, 
Linnie Louise Wills, nee Schreyer, who was born January 
29, 1859. She died in Detroit April 24, 1895. Their 
only child, born in Worthington, Ind., was : 

323. Howard Ernest Scripps, b. Mar. 7, 1882. 

162. Charles Herman Scripps (George W., George 
H., William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), born in 
Rushville March 10, 1860; educated at Albion College, 
Mich., graduating from Denver University; took his 
theological course at Boston University, graduating in 
1891; ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
church in that year; held charges in Edgartown, Mass., 
Detroit, West Bay City and Mt. Clemens, Mich. ; married 
at Albion, Mich., September 23, 1891, Helen May Knap- 
pen, daughter of Rev. A. A. Knappen, who was born 
October 30, 1865. He was a minister of rare earnestness, 

41. The Mattice family are believed to have been of Hollandish 
origin. The ancestry so far as known has been as follows: 
George Mattice==Ruth Brownell, 



b. in N. Y. 

State, 

d. in Canada. 



d. before 1S20. 



Cyrus Mattice==Cynthia Leland, 



b. near Mon- 
treal 1812, 
d. in Kansas 

1882. 



b. Messina, N. 
T., 1823. 



Anna A. Mattice==George C. Scripps. 
b. 1S52, m. 1876. 



6o 



GENEALOGY OF THE 



conscientious devotion and energy, combined with a tender, 
sympathetic, lovable disposition, which marked him an 
ideal clergyman, and caused him to be greatly beloved. He 
died at Mt. Clemens December 5, 1901. Issue as follows: 

324. Charles Knappen Scripps, b. July 2, 1894; d. Aug. 3, 1894. 

325. Catherine Harriet Scripps, b. April 16, 1898; d. April 
23, 1898. 

163. Catherine Elizabeth Scripps, second daughter 
of George W. and Sarah E. (Clarke) Scripps, born in 
Kushville February 15, 1862; married in Detroit, July 5, 
1887, to William Duty South wick, who was born July 11, 
1864. 42 She died November 1, 1899. Issue, all born in 
Detroit : 

326. James Scripps Southwick, b. April 24, 1S88. 

327. Helen Marjorie Southwick, b. April 3, 1890; d. April 

' 328. ' Herman Duty Southwick, b. July 22, 1892. 



•12. 



Pedigree of William Duty Southwick: 



Lawrence Southwick==Casandra 
Came from Lanca- 
shire, England, in 

1627 and established 

a glass factory at 

Salem, Mass. Be- 
came a convert to 

Quakerism, and 

with his wife and 

two elder children 

was fined, whipped 

and imprisoned, 

and in 1659 exiled 

from the colony. 

His two younger 

children were sold 

into slavery. The 

family took refuge 

on Shelter Island, 

Long Island Sound, 

where the parents 

died from exposure 

and privations in 

1660. In the early 

records the name is 

spelled Se thick. 

Daniel Southwick==Esther Boyce, 



b. at Salem 1637; 
was sold as a 
slave upon his 
parents' expul- 
sion; m. 1663, 
d. 1719. 



dau. of 

Joseph and 

Eleanor. 



Robert Potter, associate of the .noted 
religious disturber, Samuel Gorton, 
in the settlement of Warwick, R. 
I. He came to Massachusetts from 
Coventry, England, in 1634. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



6l 



168. Mary Frances Bagby, eldest daughter of John 
C. and Mary A. (Scripps) Bagby, born in Faishville Sep- 
tember 26, 1851; educated at Knox College, 111., class of 
1872; married at Pomona, Cal., March 10, 1891, to Paul 
Blades, newspaper publisher of San Diego and Los Angeles, 
who was born at Watseka, 111., August 14, 1860. Engaged 
for some years in editorial work on the Detroit Evening 
News, St. Louis Chronicle and San Diego Sun, her aptitude- 
was only surpassed by her remarkable energy and devotion. 

169. John Scripps Bagby, eldest son of John C. and 
Mary A. (Scripps) Bagby, born in Bushville February 28, 
1S53; educated at University of Illinois, class of 1875; 
banker; married, March 27, 1879, Loucilla Anna Walker, 
daughter of Hon. Pinckney H. Walker, one of the judges 



I l 

Lawrence Southwick==Tamson Buffum, John Potter=— Jane Burlingame, 



b. Salem 1664, m. 
1704, d. 1718. 



dau. of Caleb. 



Joseph Southwick==Elsa Sayles, 



b. 1745, m. 1779, 
d. 1814. 



dau. of Jonathan 
Sayles, of Smith- 
field, R. I.; 
b. 1756, d. 1844. 



Ezra Southwick==Chloe Taft. 
b. 1780, d. 1847. i 



Duty Southwick=.=Sally Paine, 
b. 1803; d. 1860, j 
at Dexter, Mich. 



b. War- 
wick, R. I. 
1669. 



dau. Roger and 
Mary. 



I 

Lawrence Southwick==Hannah Shove, 
b. 1711, m. 1739, d. 
1795. Shoemaker cf. 
Dighton, Mass. 



dau. of Edward 

and Lydia, 

Quakers, of 

Dighton. 



Fisher Potter==Mary Winsor. 
b. Cranston, 
R. I.. 1706. 



Winsor Potter= 
b. 1749, 
m. 1771. 



^Damaris Burlingame. 



Pardon Potter==Rhoda Carver. 



Anson Potter. 



I I 

George Edward Southwick==Ann Eliza Potter, 
b. Charlton, Mass., Feb. 

28, 1838; d. Mar. 13, 1888, 

at Detroit. In 1871 he 

purchased Lookout 

Mountain, Tenn., for 

$65,000, and resided upon 

it for two years, till 

overtaken by financial 

misfortunes in the panic 

of 1873. 



I 
William Duty Southwick== Catherine Elizabeth Scripps. 



62 GENEALOGY OF THE 

of the supreme court of Illinois, who was born December 

14, 1858. Issue as follows: 

329. John Walker Bagby, b. April 7, 1880. 

330. Susan Loucilla Bagby; b. Feb. 18, 1882; d. Jan. 28, 1884. 

331. Katherine McAllister Bagby, b. Oct. 29, 1884. 

332. Francis Cyrus Bagby, b. May 23, 1886. 

171. Albert Morris Bagby, second son of John C. 
and Mary A. (Scripps) Bagby, born in Rushville April 
29, 1859; developed superior musical talent and studied 
under Prof. Scharwenka in Berlin and afterwards with 
Franz Liszt at Weimar. He has been a contributor to 
various periodicals, and in 1895 published a musical 
romance entitled "Miss Traumerie." 

172. George Henry Bagby, third son of John C. and 
Mary A. (Scripps) Bagby, born in Kushville July 1, 1861 ; 
educated at Chaddock College, Quincy, 111. Taking up 
journalism, he ivas connected successively with the St. 
Louis Chronicle and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He 
died unmarried, March 27, 1889. 

175. Arthur Frederick Bagby, fifth son of John C. 
and Mary A. (Scripps) Bagby, born in Kushville December 
8, 1868 ; was for some time connected with the publishing 
department of the Detroit Evening News; died unmar- 
ried, January 3, 1895. 

NINTH GENERATION. 

177. Mary Charlesworth, eldest daughter of Jesse T. 
and Harriet A. (Tudor) Charlesworth, born July 20, 1861 ; 
married, April 20, 1881, to Edward Thomas Barlow Guy. 
She died June 4, 1890. The issue of this marriage was: 

333. Frederick Henry Charleswortb Guy, b. Jan. 30, 1882; d. 
Dec. 30, 1S89. 

334. Edward Martin Guy, b. April 27, 1883. 

335. Jobn Keble Guy, b. June 21, 1884. 

336. Catherine Rebecca Guy, b. Sept. 5, 1885. 

337. Basil Gilderdale Guy, b. Sept. 19, 1886. 

338. Mary Dorothy Guy, b. Dec. 6, 1887; d. 1891. 

339. Florence Harriet Guy, b. Feb. 11, 1889; d. 1891. 

340. Alban Guy, b. May 31, 1890; d. 1891. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 63 

181. Alice Charlesworth, fourth daughter of Jesse T. 
and Harriet A. (Tudor) Charlesworth, born December 30, 
1869. A talented artist in oil and water color, who 
exhibits at the Royal Academy and Paris Salon. 

186. Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Owen S. and 
Elizabeth (Punch) Tudor, born October 1, 1864; married 
in Buenos Ayres, February 10, 1887, to Alfred Black 
Pringle Boyd. Issue as follows : 

341. Phyllis Boyd, b. Dec. 28, 1887. 

342. Owen Tudor Boyd, b. Aug. 30, 1889. 

343. Malcolm Boyd, b. Oct. 27, 1890; d. Nov. 7, 1890. 

344. Alfred Kenneth Boyd, b. Jan. 14, 1892. 

345. Ethel Mary Boyd, b. Mar. 22, 1893. 

189. Harry Tudor, second son of Owen S. and Eliza- 
beth (Punch) Tudor, born November 5, 1869; married, 
April 18, 1895, Frances Marina Marsden, daughter of 
Richard Marsden, of Gravesend, Kent, and granddaughter 
of Admiral Marsden, R. N. Issue as follows : 

346. Ina Marjcrie Tudor, b. June 4, 1896. 

347. Evelyn Dorothea Tudor, b. Oct. 25, 1897. 

348. Owen Marsden Tudor, b. Aug. 14, 1899. 

349. Richard Walrond Tudor, b. Dec. 23, 1901. 

190. Philip Scripps Tudor, third son of Owen S. and 
Elizabeth (Punch) Tudor, born April 12, 1871 ; married, 
September 8. 1896, Harriet Mary Woodward, daughter 
of John William Barnes Woodward, of Rushden, North- 
amptonshire, who was born July 9, 1871. Issue: 

350. Alice Mary Tudor, b. Aug. 14, 1897. 

191. Edith Walrond Tudor, third daughter of Owen 
S. and Elizabeth (Punch) Tudor, bom July 20, 1872; 
married, June 13, 1894, to Basil Guy, son of Canon Guy, 
who was born July 16, 1867. Issue as follows: 

351. Humphrey Walrond Guy, b. May 16, 1896. 

352. Edith Dorothea Guy, b. Jan. 26, 1898. 

353. Violet Mary Guy, b. Dec. 17, 1899. 

354. Irene Guy, b. April 21, 1901. 



64 GENEALOGY OF THE 

200. Arthur William Scripps Deacon, eldest son of 
William Scripps and Eliza J. (Grove) Deacon, born in 
England July 28, 1849; married, July 31, 1870, Harriet 
Smith, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann Smith, who was 
Lorn at Sandwich January 16, 1848. Issue as follows, all 
born at Sandwich, Kent, England : 

355. Grace Julia Deacon, b. Nov. 2, 1871. 

356. Harold John Deacon, b. Nov. 13, 1873; d. Oct., 1879. 

357. William George Deacon, b. Nov. 12, 1875. 

358. Frank Joseph Deacon, b. Nov. 8, 1877. 

359. Edith Jane Deacon, b. Feb. 6, 1880. 

201. Cecilia Louisa Deacon, eldest daughter of Will- 
iam S. and Eliza J. (Grove) Deacon, born in London June 
13, 1851; married in Brooklyn, K Y., October 28, 1875, 
to Herbert Frederick Hay Elmore, produce merchant of 
Boston, who was born at" Pittsburgh, N. Y., August 9, 
1850, and was a grandson of Lot Elmore, one of the found- 
ers of Pittsburgh. 4 " He died in Cambridge, Mass., 
Xovember 30, 1883, leaving children as follows, all born 
in Boston : 

360. Maud Arvilla Jane Elmore, b. July 27, 1876. 

361. Cecilia Grove Elmore, b. Aug. 27, 1877. 

362. Mary Hay Elizabeth Elmore, b. Oct. 20, 1878. 

363. Grace Bertha Virginia Elmore, b. May 19, 1880. 

202. Alfred Harold Eobert Graham Deacon, son of 
William Scripps and Eliza J. (Grove) Deacon, born at 

43. Ancestry 01 Herbert F. H. Elmore: 

Lot Elmore ==Mary Hay 



Came from Eng 
land 1770. Large 
land owner and 
lumberman. Bur- 
ied in Pitts- 
burgh, N. T. 



One of the first 
settlers in the 
Champlain val- 
ley. Her father 
participated in 
the battle of 
Plattsburgh. 



Frederick William Elmore==Arvilla Wealthy Tenney, 



b. in Peru, N. T. ; whole- 
sale dry goods merchant 
of New York. 



of Dummerston, Vt. 



Herbert F. H. EImore==Cecilia L. Deacon, 
b. at Randolph, Vt., 1850; 
d. at Cambridge, Mass., 1883. 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 65 

Bow, near London, April 25, 1854; married, November 
22, 1883, Helen Laird, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, 
April 9, 1861. She died April 28, 1897, leaving children 
as follows : 

364. Elizabeth Jane Deacon, b. Nov. 1, 1884. 

365. Helen Grace Deacon, b. May 27, 1888. 

306. Margaret Ann Deacon, b. Mar. 1, 1897; d. Aug. 21, 1897. 

203. Grace Virginia Deacon, second daughter of 
William S. and Eliza J. (Grove) Deacon, born in Lowes- 
toft, Suffolk, England, January 7, 1858; married, October 
13, 1881, to James Wride Vickerman, of New York, who 
was born in Hull, England, June 17, 1849. 

204. Florence Katherine Deacon, third daughter of 
William S. and Eliza J. (Grove) Deacon, born at South 
Hackney, London, October 6, 1859 ; married, June 30, 
1887, to John Francis Coyne, who was born in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., November 25, 1856. Children as follows: 

367. John Francis Coyne, b. Jan. 30, 1888; d. Mar. 14, 1888. 

368. Florence Coyne, b. Mar., 1889; d. same month. 

369. Percival Grant Coyne, b. Nov. 3, 1890. 

370. Florence Jane Coyne, b. Aug. 13, 1892; d. April, 1898. 

371. Grace Virginia Coyne, b. Aug. 13, 1892; d. Nov., 1892. 

372. Violet Beatrice Coyne, b, Mar. 6, 1895. 

373. Granville Harold Coyne, b. June 8, 1898. 

206. Eliza Jane Deacon, youngest daughter of Will- 
iam S. and Eliza J. (Grove) Deacon, born in London 
March 27, 1867; married, April 14, 1884, to Samuel 
George Allison, commission merchant of New York, who 
was born in New York October 17, 1851, and died in 
Brooklyn February 6, 1896. Children as follows: 

374. George Deacon Allison, b. Jan. 23, 1885. 

375. Grace Julia Allison, b June 15, 1887. 

376. Thomas Henry Allison, b. Aug. 3, 1889. 

377. Albert Victor Allison, b. Aug. 3, 1889. 

378. Eliza Jane Allison, b. June 21, 1891. 

379. Flora Cecile Allison, b Aug. 9, 1893. 

380. Samuel Greatheart Allison, b. July 8, 1896; d. same day. 

209. Arthur Kichard Deacon, eldest son of Arthur 
and Mercy (Tuck) Deacon, born at Witham, England, 



66 GENEALOGY OF THE 

November 7, 1858; came with his father to America in 
1873; spent a few years in mining and ranching in Colo- 
rado ; settled in St. Lonis as manager of an extensive drug 
manufacturing establishment, establishing a summer resi- 
dence at Balsam Lake, Canada. On January 22, 1880, he 
married Margaret Harriet Lamb, the issue of which 
marriage was : 

381. Arthur Philip Deacon, b. July 12, 1888. 

On August 25, 1897, he married Edith M. Harris, 
daughter of William and Mary J. Harris, who was born 
in Aurora, Out., June 10, 1876. 44 Issue as follows: 

382. Edith Victoria Deacon, b. at Balsam Lake, July 15, 1898. 

383. Virginia Kettering Deacon, b. at Toronto, June 20, 1901. 

213. Robert Tuck Deacon, youngest son of Arthur 
and Mercy (Tuck) Deacon, born at Witham, England, 
June 21, 1866; married, September 13, 1892, to Ruth 
Ethelwyn Allen, daughter of Benjamin B. Allen, of 
Detroit. For some years was connected with newspapers 
in Detroit and Cleveland ; now engaged extensively in book 
and job printing in St. Louis. Children as follows : 

384. Margaret Ruth Deacon, b. at Cleveland, July 23, 1893. 

385. Ralph Allen Deacon, b. Sept. 4, 1896. 

386. Robert Tuck Deacon, Jr., b. at St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 4, 1899. 

214. Alice Mary Deacon, second daughter of Arthur 
and Mercy (Tuck) Deacon, born at Witham June 7, 1868; 
married at St. Louis, Mo,, March 24, 1898, to Howard 
Freeman Dyson, son of Edwin Dyson, who was born in 
Rushville December 17, 1870. Issue as follows, all born 
at Rushville : 

387. Edwin Arthur Dyson, b. July 11, 1899: 

388. Dorothy May Dyson, b. Sept. 5, 1900. 

389. Marjory Deacon Dyson, b. Mar. 5, 1902. 

218. Owen Bismarck Deacon, eldest son of Octavius 
D. and Louisa A. (Horncastle) Deacon, born at Hackney, 



44. "William Harris was bom in Reading, England, in 1831, and his 
wife, Mary J. Williams, in Darlington, Ont., in 1843, 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 67 

Middlesex, April 21, 1872; educated in Germany; took 
up architecture and civil engineering; in the service (1903) 
of the Southend-on-Sea local board, in the construction of 
a sea-wall two miles in length. 

220. Willoughby Deacon, second son of Octavius D. 
and Louisa A. (Horncastle) Deacon, born January 1, 1876 ; 
brought up to his father's business, newspaper advertising 
agency. 

227. George Hitge Deacon, second son of Samuel A. 
and Catherine (Hitge) Deacon, born in South Africa 
September 28, 1867; lieutenant in Brabant's Horse in 
the Boer war of 1899-1902; married, January 22, 1895, 
Isabel Ira Gilmore Rubridge, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, 
who was born in 1872. 45 Issue as follows: 

390. Maud Quinton Oavanagh Deacon, b. at Johannesburg, 
Sept. 13, 1895. 

391. Portlock Gilmore Deacon, b. July 2, 1900. 

392. Hinemoa Dixie Deacon, b. Dec. 31, 1901. 

228. Albert Deacon, third son of Samuel A. and 
Catherine (Hitge) Deacon, born in South Africa July 11, 
1869; came to America in 1891, and became connected 
with the newspaper publishing business; married at Omaha, 
]STeb., July 11, 1901, Anna Louise Edwards. Issue: 

393. Albert William Edward Deacon, b. Kansas City, Mar. 
2G, 1902. 



45. Ancestry of Isabella I. G. Rubridge: 

— Rubridge== Gilmore, one of three sisters, the 

others marrying a Capt. Portlock and 
Capt. George Graham Gore, who perished 
in Franklin's expedition to the North Pole. 



I I 

Capt. Robert Rubridge, R. N., Capt. Charles Rubridge, R. N. 

who took up land In South who settled in Canada. 

Africa. 
I 
Alfred Portlock Rubridge. 

I 
Isabella Ira Gilmore Rubridge=— George H. Deacon. 



68 GENEALOGY OF THE 

236. Jesse James Sharp, 46 son of E. D. T. and Eliza- 
beth M. (Scripps) Sharp, born at Nauvoo October 19, 
1859; engaged in railroading in Montana and Colorado; 
married at Grand Junction, Col., September 5, 1888, 
Sophia McKnight, daughter of James Thomas McKnight, 
who was born at Little Orleans, Md., February 1, 1869. 
She died at South Butte, Mont., November 15, 1890, and 
he at Grand Junction September 13, 1894, leaving one 
son: 

394. Thomas Enoch Sharp, b. at South Butte, Nov. 6, 1890. 

237. Mary Rebecca Sharp, daughter of E. D. T. and 
Elizabeth M. (Scripps) Sharp, born at JSTauvoo, 111., 
November 2, 1861 ; married at Augusta, 111., February 9, 
1886, to Harry Kevins Billmeyer, who was born at Milton, 
Pa., January 24, 1857. He died in Chicago January 11, 
1900. Issue : 

395. Elizabeth Matilda Billmeyer, b. at Chicago, Sept. 24 
1891; d. Mar. 28, 1S92. 

238. Ellen Warren Scripps, eldest daughter of James 
E. and Harriet J. (Messinger) Scripps, born in Detroit 
July 10, 1863; married at Detroit June 30, 1887, to 
George Gough Booth, son of Henry W. and Clara Louise 
Booth, who was born in Toronto September 24, 1864. 
In 1888 he became connected as business manager with 

46. Jesse J. Sharp spent a short time in Detroit in 1877, then went 
west. In Colorado he was employed as a railway brakeman, from 
which position he was promoted to the charge of a water train and 
later to be yardmaster at Grand Junction. He was a faithful employe 
and stood high in the esteem of all, from the superintendent of his 
road to the humblest employe. At the time of the great strike in 1874 
it was chiefly his influence which kept the men of the Colorado Midland 
from going out. The cause of his death was a stricture in the intes- 
tines, caused by an injury received a year before in jumping from a 
train. He refused to allow his mother to be informed of his illness, but 
after his death her address was ascertained. The expenses of his 
funeral were borne by the Order of Railway Trainmen, and the Santa 
Fe Railway furnished transportation for the body and attendants to 
Rushville, even arranging with connecting roads for transfers— a thing 
that company never before did for an employe. He was a fine, manly 
fellow, and his wife a woman of superior character, 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



69 



The Detroit Evening News. In August, 1892, he acquired 
the principal ownership of the Grand Rapids Press; in 
1895 became interested in the Chicago Journal, and in 
1903 in the Bay City Times. In 1899 he founded the 
Cranbrook Press, in Detroit, for the publication of books 
of high class, printed by hand. Author of "Cranbrook 
Tales," 1902. 47 Issue as follows: 

396. James Scripps Booth, b. May 31, 1888. 

397. Grace Ellen Booth, b. Jan. 27, 1890. 

398. Warren Scripps Booth, b. April 18, 1894. 

399. Henry Scripps Booth, b. Aug. 11, 1897. 

400. Florence Louise Booth, b. July 14, 1902. 

47. Ancestry of George Cough Booth: 

William Booth=Elizabeth Goldsmith John Eingswood 
m. Cranbrook, I 
Kent, June 12, 

1739 

Thomas Booth=Elizabeth Eingswood 
m. Cranbrook, I 
July 9, 1776 



George Booth=Elizabeth Dan Gough Thomas Wood John Martell=Mary O'Eeefe 



b. Cranbrook, 
Mar. 24, 1777 
d. London, 
Feb. 12. 1845 



Henry Gough Booth= 
b. Cranbrook, Sept. 

26. 1811, m. East 

Grinstead, 1836. d. 

Toronto, Feb. 6, 

1871 



b. July 12, 1781 
d. Oct. 14, 1861 



:Harriet Wood 
b. Cranbrook 
d. Cranbrook 
Dec, 24, 1841 



Charles Gagnier=Maria Martell 



b. Detroit, July 

7, 1812, m. St. 

Catherines, 1836 

d. St. Catherines. 

Sept. 3, 1843 



b. Toronto, July 

22, 1815, d. St. 

Thomas, Dec. 7, 

1876 



Henry Wood Booth==Clara Louise Irene Gagnier 
b. Cranbrook, Jan. I b. St. Catherines, C. W., 
21, 1837, m. Toronto, Nov. 25, 1839 

May 18. 1858 



George Gough Booth r= 
b. Toronto, Sept. 24, 1864 



:Ellen W. Scripps. 



George G. Booth's grandfather was a coppersmith in Cranbrook, 
and a rigid baptist He emigrated to America in 1844 and carried on 
his business successively in Toronto, Buffalo and St. Catherines. His 
father, H. W. Booth, was brought up to his grandfather's business and 
was for a few years a member of the successive firms of Booth & 
Sons and Booth Brothers, of Toronto. For a year he published in 
Toronto the Sunday Times. Removing to St. Thomas, Ont., he invented 
Kaoka. a substitute for coffee, and out of which other parties have 
nmce made large fortunes. He was one of the early adherents of the 
Reformed Episcopal church, and has for a few years past been editor 
of the religions department of the Detroit News-Tribune. His papers 
ever the signature ot "Laic"' have attracted wide attention. The 
Gagniers were one of the old French families of Detroit, and John Martell 
was a purser in the British navy, and at one time stationed at Amherst 
burg, Ont. 



•JO GENEALOGY OF THE 

239. Anna Virginia Scripps, second daughter of 
James E. and Harriet J. (Messinger) Scripps, born in 
Detroit March 5, 1866; married, November 10, 1891, to 
Edgar Bancroft Whitcomb, son of Cummings D. and Mary 
(Webber) Whitcomb, who was born in Newton August 6 ; 
1866. 48 He was for several years General Passenger 
Agent for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company 
and has since dealt largely in real estate. Issue as follows, 
born in Detroit: 

401. James Scripps Whitcomb, b. Sept. 25, 1892. 

402. Harriet Gertrude Whitcomb, b. Mar. 10, 1895. 



48. Ancestry of Edgar B. Whitcomb: 

Payson Webber 



Samuel = Marian David r= Ellis 



Webber 

b. Squam 

Island, Me. 

m. 1767 



Brooks Webber 

of Wiscas- of Edge- 
sett, Me. comb. Me, 
m. 1775 



Smith Gorham 
of Wiscas- b. Barn- 
sett, Me. stable, 
Mass. 



David =Kebecca Jacob = Lucy David Gorham=.;Mary Hawks 

Whitcomb | Chase Webber I Webber b. Barnstable, b. in N, H. 

of Surrey, of Squam Mass. 

N. H. Island ' ~ 7 

Elijah Chase Whitcombr=Mary Ann Simonds Israel W T ebberL=zMaryAnn ^ Gorham^ 
b. Boston, Mass. 



Mar. 9, 1814 

d. Detroit, 

April 18, 1900 



d. Aug. 9, 1891 b. Squam Is- 

age 75 land, Me., 

Sept. 14, 1806 
m. Nov. 6, 1832 
d. Nov. 30, 1890 



b. Damariscotta, Me. 
Oct. 3, 1812 
d. Detroit, 
Aug. 4, 1901 



Cummings Davis Whitcomb = Mary Gorham Webber 
b. Fitchburg, Mass., Dec. 22, 1840 I b. Damariscotta, Me. 

m. Boston, May 10, 1865 May 15, 1838 

Edgar Bancroft Whitcomb=Anna V. Scripps 
b. Newton, Mass. 
Aug. 6, 1866 

It was in honor of Judge Gorham, a brother or uncle of the first 
Gorham mentioned in the above table, who distinguished himself in 
the Indian wars, that the village of Gorham, Maine, was named. 

The Webber family claim to be descended from Anneke Webber, 
who was born in Holland in 1605, and is said to have been a grand- 
daughter of William, Prince of Orange. She first married one Roeloff 
Jans, with whom she migrated to this country, where she received a 
grant of land, about 192 acres in what is now the heart of New York 
city. Upon the death of her husband Anneke married Rev. Everardus 
Bogardus, pastor of one of the Dutch churches in New York, then 
New Amsterdam. By both husbands she had children. When New 
7ork was surrendered to the British in 1667 the old Dutch titles were 
confirmed to the occupants, but later the widow Jans-Bogardus 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 



71 



242. Grace Messinger Scripps, youngest daughter of 
James E. and Harriet J. (Messinger) Scripps, born in 
Detroit December 11, 1878; educated at Detroit Female 
Seminary; married, September 4, 1901, to Rex Brainerd 
Clark, son of R. B. and Ellen (Russell) Clark, who was 
born in Detroit May 31, 1876. 49 Issue : 

403. Rex Scripps Clark, b. July 21, 1902. 

243. William Edmund Scripps (James E., James M., 
William A., William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), 
born in Detroit May 6, 1882 ; educated at University 



became discontented with British rule and removed to Albany, 
apparently deserting: her farm on Manhattan Island. Then it appears 
to have been forfeited to the crown and later was granted by 
Queen Anne to Trinity church, the only English church then in the 
city. It is this property which has been the source, with the 
immense growth of the city, of Trinity's enormous wealth— supposed 
to be $100,000,000 or more. About 1S72 a movement was set on foot to 
discover the descendants of Anneke Jans-Bogardus and have them 
join in a suit for the recovery of the property from the church. In 
the course of the next seven or eight years numerous meetings were 
held, committees appointed, much money contributed and some emi- 
nent lawyers retained, but 1 believe the case never came to trial. 
Many people looked on the whole movement as a scheme of sharp 
attorneys to fleece unsuspecting persons bearing names of old Dutch 
settlers. Suffice it to say Trinity church is still in possession of its 
millions— probably the richest parish church in the world. 
49. Ancestry 3f Rex Brainerd Clark: 



Jacob = 
Russell 
b.1746 
m. 1772 



= Esther 
Dunham 
b. 1749 



Amos = 
Clark 
b. 1790 
d. 1815 



=Lucinda 
Rood 
b. 1795 



Frederick: 
Richmond 
b. Mass., 
1775, d. Ran- 
dolph, O. 
1842 



=Alice 
d.1842 



Ralph = Laura 



Russell 
b. Wind- 
sor. Oonn. 
1789, m. 
Chester, 
Mass., 1818 
d. Chagrin 
Falls, O., 
1866 



Ellsworth 
d. Chagrin 
Falls, 1866 



Charles Louis: 

L. West 
b. New Jersey, 
1800, d. Green- 
field. Mo., 1872 



William Amos Ciark=Eliza Ann Richmond 



=Lydia 
Ross 



b. Conn., 1816 

m. Randolph, O., 1843 

d.Bucyrus, O., 1871 



b. Ellisburg, N. Y., 

1825, d. Cleveland, 

1901 



Ralph Ellsworth Russell=Mary West 
b. Warrensville, O., 1818 | b. Youngstown, 



m. Warren, 0. 1844, d. 
Chagrin Falls, O.. 1850 



O.. 1824. d. 
Cleveland. 1902 



Ransom Bruce CIark=Ellen Rosena Russell 
b. Southington, O.. I b. Chagrin Falls. 
Aug. 28, 1844, m. Cleve- May 1, 1846. 

land, O., Sept. 19, 1872 



Rex Brainerd Clark= 
b. Detroit, 
May 31, 1876 



=Grace M. Scripps 



J2, GENEALOGY OF THE 

School, Cleveland, and Michigan Military Academy, 
Orchard Lake ; married, June 27, 1901, at Amherstburg, 
Ont., to Nina Amanda Downey, 50 daughter of John J. 
Downey, 51 superintendent of police for Detroit, who was 
born in Detroit June 15, 1884. Issue : 
404. James Edmund Scripps, b. Jan. 16, 1903. 

50. Ancestry of Nina A. Downey: 

John Vliet 
b. in N.J. 

Robert Vliet=Sarah Morgan Andrew Ketchum::~Jane Frome 
b. in N. J. I b. in N. J. b. on Long 

|_ Island, N. Y. 

Bartholomew Downey:= Joanna Hill John Van Ness Vliet:=Amanda Hunt Ketchum 
b. Ireland d. 1847 b. Independence, N. J. I b. Hope, N.J. 

Oct. 2, 1832 June 3, 1835 

I I 

John James Downey Ella Olivia Vliet 

b. in Ireland, I b. Independence, 

Jan. 1, 1844 | N. J., Dec. 28, 1856 

Nina Amanda Downey:^=William E. Scripps 

51. John James Downey Was born in Ireland but was brought at 
an early age to this country. Losing his parents while still a mere 
child, he was thrown entirely upon his own resources. Came to 
Michigan in 1848, and enlisted in 1861, at the outbreak of the civil war, 
in the 8th Michigan Infantry. His first experience on the battlefield 
was at the capture of Hilton Head, S. C. On January 1, 1S62, his 
eighteenth birthday, he participated in the battle of Coosaw River. 
Subsequently he took part in the siege of Fort Pulaski, April 11, 1862; 
the battle of Wilmington Island, April 36; James Island, June 16, 
where of 534 men of the regiment who went into the battle 185 were 
killed or wounded; Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9; the second battle 
cf Bull Run, August 28, 29 and 30: Chantilly, September 1, Where he was 
shot in the head and made prisoner by the Confederates. He was 
taken to Richmond but paroled. By December of the same year he 
had recovered sufficiently to rejoin his regiment at Fredericksburg, 
where he was promoted in the same month for heroic conduct on the 
field. In January, 1863, he was made postmaster to the 9th Army 
Corps, which position he held till the re-enlistment of his regiment 
in 1864. In July, 1863, he was at the siege of Vicksburg, and later at 
the battle of Jackson, Miss. In December, 1863, he shared in the battle 
of STrawbcrry Plains near Knoxville, Tenn. In January, 1S64, when 
the 8th returned to Michigan for re-enlistment, Mr. Downey expected 
to return to the field with a commission, but was disappointed; he 
therefore resumed his place in the ranks. On the third day of the 
battle of the Wilderness, on May 6, 1864, he was shot in the left arm, 
and while half unconscious from loss of blood was slashed in the 
breast by a cavalryman who galloped by. This ended bis military 
experience; and upon recovering from his wounds he was mustered out 
of the service, having served three full years. He then entered the 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 73 

244. Florence May Scripps, eldest daughter of Will- 
iam A. and Ambrosia C. (Antisdel) Scripps, born in Detroit 
May 8, 1870; married at Detroit on May 8, 1890, to 
Frederick William Kellogg, son of Theron H. and Frances 
E. Kellogg, who was born at Norwich, O., December 7, 
1866. He early became connected with the newspaper 
business in Cleveland and Detroit, and is now the senior 
proprietor of the Kansas City World, the Omaha Evening 
News and the St. Paul Evening News. Children as 
follows : 

405. Florence Ellen Scripps Kellogg, b. at Detroit, Nov. 
7, 1891, 

406. Dorothy Winifred Kellogg, b. Sept. 14, 1893. 

407. William Scripps Kellogg, b. Jan. 29, 1897. 

245. Ellen Winifred Scripps, youngest daughter of 
William A. and Ambrosia C. (Antisdel) Scripps, born in 
Detroit June 27, 1873; married in Detroit, April 21, 1897, 
to Griffith Ogden Ellis, son of Griffith and Jane (Woods) 
Ellis, who was born at Urbana, O., November 19, 1869, 
and graduated LL. B. at University of Michigan 1893.' 52 
Mrs. Ellis has devoted herself to music and for a number 
of years has held the position of soprano singer in the choir 
of the First Presbyterian church of Detroit. 

255. Charles Graham Gardner, eldest son of Charles 

Detroit postoffice as distributing clerk and was soon promoted to chief 
clerk of the department. He remained in the postal service through 
the administrations of William A. Howard, Henry Barns, P. W. Swift 
and John Kaple. He then bought a farm in Oakland county, which 
he carried on for ten yea'-s. Returning to Detroit, ne accepted a 
position on the police force as patrolman. In eight months he was 
promoted to the detective service and advanced successively to 
sergeant and lieutenant. In August, 1901, he was appointed Superin- 
tendent of Police. 

52. Griffith Ellis was born in 1829 at Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, 
North Wales. He was descended from a long line bearing the same 
christian name, which the family tradition says they inherited from 
one of the last v.elsh kings. This Griffith Ellis came to this country in 
1840 and settled in Urbana, Ohio. His wife Jane, daughter of Robert 
M. and Rachel Voss Woods, was born at Wheeling, West Va„ in 1832. 
Her parents moved to Ohio in 1840, bringing their slaves with them, 
which they liberated. 



74 GENEALOGY OF THE 

and Mary Emma (Scripps) Gardner, born in London 
January 30, 1863 ; took orders in the Church of England 
and became a missionary in Japan; married at Osaka, 
Japan, July 17, 1894, Caroline Emily Palmer, daughter 
of Eev. James M. Palmer, of Boston, who was born at 
Rochester, Ts T . IE, February 28, 1861. Issue as follows: 

408. Charles Graham Gardner, b. at Kobe, May 8, 1895. 

409. Ralph Graham Gardner, b. Jan. 17, 1900. 

258. Maude Mary Gardner, third daughter of Charles 
and Mary Emma (Scripps) Gardner, born in London 
August 15, 1867: married, October 22, 1891, to Harry 
Bent, who was bom October 26, 1859. Issue as follows : 

410. Harry Percival Howard Bent, b. Sept. 17, 1892. 

411. Sybil Maude Bent, b. Sept. 7, 1893. 

412. Mona Lilian Bent, b. April 10, 1899. 

272. Grace Mary Scripps, daughter of George E. and 
Jane (Sharman) Scripps, born October 1, 1877; married, 
November 1, 1901, to George Deane, of Broadmead, Fins- 
borough Road, Lower Tooting, Surrey. 

281. Margaret Agnes Chase, daughter of John Will- 
iam and Flora" B. (McCain) Chase, born at Des Moines, 
Iowa, August 17, 1878; married, April 3, 1902, to Colonel 
John Adley Hull, L T . S. A. 

282. Frances Eliza West, daughter of Harry and 
Mary E. (Chase) West, born in Des Moines September 19, 
1877; designated in 1902 by Gov. Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, 
to christen the United States cruiser Des Moines, a vessel 
of 3,200 tons, 4,500 horse-power, but was prevented from 
accepting the honor by a trip she made to China, where 
she spent ten months in Peking, the guest of U. S. Minis- 
ter and Mrs. Conger. During this visit she luncheoned 
twice with the Empress Dowager at the palace, also again 
with the princesses. Mrs. Conger also entertained the 
latter while she was there. 

311. Catherine Elizabeth McAllister, daughter of 
William H. and Nancy Maria (Parrotte) McAllister, born 
in Kushville November 18, 1858; married in Rushville, 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 75 

January 14, 1880, to Francis C. Grable, who was born in 
Etna, Licking Co., O., September 22, 1854. Issue : 

413. Katharine Lee Grable, b. in Omaha, Neb., June 8, 1887. 

319. Jessie Adelaide Scripps, daughter of George C. 
and Anna Adelaide (Mattice) Scripps, born in Detroit 
September 13, 1877 ; married at Detroit, May 3, 1898, to 
Miner Alexander Gregg, 53 who was born in Southfield, 
Mich., January 7, 3 869. 

320. George Mattice Scripps (George C., George W., 
George H., William, William, Robert, Robert, Thomas), 
born in Detroit November 23, 1880; married, June 22, 
1903, to Margaret Fleming Wilson, daughter of William 
F. Wilson, of Detroit. 

TENTH GENERATION. 

355. Grace Julia Deacon, daughter of Arthur Will- 
iam Scripps Deacon, born in Sandwich, Kent, November 
2, 1871 ; married, April 18, 1892, to John Andrew Bailey, 
of Ash, Kent, organist and composer, who was born 
November, 1807. Issue as follows: 

414. Cecilia Grace Bailey, b. Feb. 22, 1893. 

415. Felix Charles Bailey, b. Oct., 1896. 

416. Nellie Bailey, b. Feb., 1899. 

417. Elena Bailey, b. April, 1901. 

357. William George Deacon, son of Arthur William 
Scripps Deacon, born in Sandwich, Kent, November 12, 
1875; married, March, 1901, to Eliza Cook, who was born 
in August, 1872. Issue : 

418. Dorothy Virginia Deacon, b. Oct., 1902. 



53. Ancestry of Miner A. Gregg : 

Alexander Gregg^Margaret Kenaz Kinne^Martha Fuller 

Thomas Gregg = Helen Roxana Kinne 

Miner Alexander Greggrz:Jessie A. Scripps 



DIRECTORY 



NAMES, OCCUPATIONS AND POSTOFFICE ADDRESSES OF 

ALL LIVING MEMBERS OF THE SCRIPPS 

FAMILY OF ADULT YEARS. 



NOTE: The names in parentheses are the maiden names of the persons; 
the figures in parentheses the number given to the individual in the 
preceding pages. 



Allison, Mrs. Eliza Jane (Deacon), 273 Van Buren st., Brooklyn, 

N. Y. (206) 
Bagby, Albert Morris, musical impresario, Calumet Club, 267 

Fifth ave., New York. (171) 
Bagby, Edwin Hanson, manager Evening Record, Los Angeles. 

Cal. (176) 
Bagby, John Scripps, vice-president Bank of Rushville, Rush- 

ville, 111. (169) 
Bagby, John Walker, with Evening World, Kansas City, Mo. 

(329) 
Bagby, Katherine Blanchard, Rushville, 111. (174) 
Bagby, Mrs. Mary Agnes (Scripps), Rushville, 111. (54) 
Bailey, Mrs John A. (Grace Julia Deacon), Hillside, Ash, Dover, 

England. (355) 
Beebee, Mrs. Frederick H. (Corrie Scripps), Beebeetown, Iowa. 

(108) 
Bent, Mrs. Harry (Maude Mary Gardner), 9 Russell st., Calcutta, 

India; P. 0. address care postoffice. (258) 
Billmeyer, Mrs. Mary R. (Sharp), 422 Twenty-first st., San Diego, 

Cal. (237) 
Blades, Mrs. Paul (Mary Frances Bagby), P. O. box 964, Los 

Angeles, Cal. (168) 
Booth, Mrs. George G. (Ellen W. Scripps), 605 Trumbull ave., 

Detroit. (238) 
Booth, James Scripps, 605 Trumbull ave., Detroit. (396) 



7^ GENEALOGY OF THE 

Boyd, Mrs. Alfred B. P. (Mary Tudor), Shortlands, Kent, Eng- 
land. (186) 

Charlesworth, Frederick E., The Court, Nutfield, Surrey, Eng- 
land. (185) 

Charlesworth, Rev. Guy T., 17 Macleod Road, Abbey "Wood, Kent, 
England. (179) 

Charlesworth. Mrs. Jesse T. (Harriet Anne Tudor), The Court, 
Nutfield, Surrey, England. (62) 

Chase, Charles Rich, Chase & West, furniture dealers, 712 Wal- 
nut St., Des Moines, Iowa. (Ill) 

Chase, Edmund Corrie, Chase Brothers, grocers, 311 Sixth ave., 
Des Moines. Iowa. (114) 

Chase, Mrs. Eliza (Eliza Agnes Davis Scripps), 1308 Locust St., 
Des Moines, Iowa. (40) 

Chase, John William, Chase Brothers, grocers, 311 Sixth ave., 
Des Moines. Iowa. (109) 

Chase, William Henry Scripps, H. S. Chase & Co., grocers, 604 
Walnut st., Des Moines, Iowa. (115) 

Chase, William Parker, W. P. Chase & Co., general merchandise, 
Madison and Market sts., Chicago, 111. (118) 

Clark, Mrs. Rex B (Grace M. Scripps), 45 Blaine ave., Detroit. 

(242) 

Corley, Mrs. Dexter W. (Jessie S. Sweeney), Ridge Road, Des 
Moines, Iowa. (121) 

Coyne, Mrs. John Francis (Florence Katherine Deacon), Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. (204) 

Deacon, Albert, circulation manager Evening World, Kansas 
City, Mo. (228) 

Deacon, Alfred, engraver. High St., Ramsgate, Kent, England. 
(70.. 

Deacon, Alfred, Jr., engraver, High st., Ramsgate. (207) 

Deacon, Alfred Harold, clerk, Brooklyn, N. Y. (202) 

Deacon, Arthur Richard, secretary and manager Lambert Phar- 
macal Co., Locust and Twenty-firsts sts., St. Louis, Mo.; 
residence, Webster Park, Mo., and Balsam Lake, Out. (209) 

Deacon, Arthur William Scripps, watchmaker and jeweler, Mar- 
ket St., Sandwich, Kent, England. (200) 

Deacon, Catherine Anne, Cranford, Lingfield, Surrey, England. 
(75) 

Deacon, Dora Augusta, Loughton, Essex, England. (217) 

Deacon, Edgar Samuel, engraver, High st, Ramsgate, England. 
(208) 

Deacon, Edith Jane, Market St., Sandwich, Kent, England. (359) 

Deacon, Elgiva Louisa, Loughton, Essex, England. (216j 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 79 

Deacon, Ellon, Oranford, Lingfield, Surrey, England. (69) 

Deacon, Frank Joseph, watchmaker and jeweler, Market st., 
Sandwich, England. (358) 

Deacon, George Hitge, Jobannesberg, Transvaal, South Africa. 
(227) 

Deacon. Harold Octavius, yacht builder, Cowes, Isle of Wight. 
(223) 

Deacon, Mary Etheldreda, Loughton, Essex. (219) 

Deacon, May, Cranford, Lingfield, Surrey. (215) 

Deacon, Octavius Dixie, newspaper advertising agency, 150 Lead- 
enhall st., London; residence, Loughton, Essex. (73 » 

Deacon, Owen Bismarck, architect and civil engineer, Southend- 
on-Sea, Essex, England. (218) 

Deacon, Robert Tuck, secretary Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing 
Co., Locust and Twenty-first sts., St. Louis, Mo.; residence, 
Kirkwood, Mo. (213) 

Deacon, Samuel Archer, postmaster, Herbertsdale, Cape Colony, 
South Africa. (71) 

Deacon, Virginia Grace, Herbertsdale, Cape Colony. (231) 

Deacon, Walter postmaster, Hermanuspetrusfontein, Cape Col- 
ony. (232) 

Deacon, William George, draftsman, H. M. dockyard, Chatham; 
residence, 15 Dawes st., New Brompton, Kent. (357) 

Deacon. Willoughby, newspaper advertising agent, 150 Leaden- 
hall St., London. (220) 

Deane, Mrs. George (Grace Mary Scripps), Broadmead, Fins- 
borough Road, Lower Tooting, Surrey, England. (272) 

Dyche, Mrs. Frank B. (Grace Locke Scripps), 1896 Sheridan Road, 
Evanston, 111. (140) 

Dyson, Mrs. Howard F. (Alice Mary Deacon), Rushville, 111. (214) 

Ellis, Mrs. Griffith Ogden (Ellen Winifred Scripps), 30 Kirby 
ave. west, Detroit. (245) 

Elmore, Cecilia Grove, 777 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Mass. 
(361) 

Elmore, Mrs. Cecilia Louisa (Deacon), 777 Columbia Road, Dor- 
chester, Mass. (201) 

Elmore, Grace Bertha Virginia, 777 Columbia Road, Dorchester, 
Mass. (363) 

Elmore, Mary Hay, 777 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Mass. (362) 
Elmore, Maud ArvilJa Jane, 777 Columbia Road, Dorchester, 
Mass. (362) 

Gardner, Mrs. Charles (Mary Emma Scripps), 10 Warwick Cres- 
cent, Westbourne Terrace, London. (89) 

Gardner, Rev. Charles Graham, missiouary, Shimonoseki, Japan. 
(255) 



80 GENEALOGY OF THE 

Gardner, Ernest Arthur, Bank of England; residence, 75 East 
Ferry Road, Isle of Dogs, London E. (260) 

Gardner, Gerard Charles, musician, 10 Warwick Crescent, West- 
bourne Terrace, London. (267) 

Gardner, Godfrey Derman, organist Holy Trinity Church, Pad- 
dington; residence, 10 Warwick Crescent. (266) 

Gardner, Harold Charles, Bank of England; residence, 10 War- 
wick Crescent. (265) 

Gardner, Ruth Margaret, 10 Warwick Crescent. (257) 

Gardner, Rev. William Alan, curate St. Paul's, Brentford, 
Middlesex, England. (262) 

Grable, Mrs. Francis C. (Catherine E. McAllister), Omaha, 
Neb. (311) 

Gray, Harley Winter, student Northwestern University, Evans- 
ton, 111. (301) 

Gray, James Johnson, assistant bank cashier, Astoria, 111. (299) 

Gray, John Lyman, U. S. Navy. (300) 

Gray, William Calvin, court reporter, Alton, Iowa. (297) 

Gregg, Mrs. Miner A. (Jessie Adelaide Scripps), organist, 260 
Fischer ave., Detroit. (319) 

Guy, Mrs. Basil (Edith Walrond Tudor), Buenos Ayres, South 
America. (191) 

Guy, Edward Martin, undergraduate, Oxford, England. (334) 

Guy, John Keble, Stock Exchange, London. (335) 

Hemphill, Mrs. Frank L. (Emma Grace Scripps), De Soto, Iowa. 
(101) 

Houston, Mrs. John L. (Minerva Scripps), Rushville, 111. (103) 

Howell, Mrs. William Shaw (Eliza Agnes Sweeney), 381 Broad- 
way, New York. (126) 

Hull, Mrs. John Adley (Margaret Agnes Chase), The Knicker- 
bocker, San Francisco, Cal. (281) 

Xellogg, Mrs. Frederick W. (Florence May Scripps), 512 Wood- 
land ave., Kansas City, Mo. (244) 

Little, Grace, Rushville, 111. (155) 

Little, John Scripps, cashier Bank of Rushville, Rushville, 111. 
(157) 

Little, Mrs. Lydia E. (Scripps), Rushville, 111. (49) 

Little, Virginia Ellen, Rushville, 111. (156) 

McFadden, Mrs. Everett R. (Elizabeth Nichols Scripps Speed), 
354 Sixty-second St., Chicago. (125) 

Mclntyre, Dwight, Plaza Hotel, Chicago. (318) 

Parrotte, Anne Katherine, 457 Bowen ave., Chicago. (317) 

Parrotte, Josiah Locke, Taylor & Parrotte, 457 Bowen ave., 
Chicago. (145). 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 8 1 

Parrotto, Lewis Watts, stock breeder, Edgernont, S. D. (146) 
Parrotte, Marcus Lindsay, 2953 Harvey St., Omaha, Neb. (151) 
Parrotte, Walter Lee, vice-president Taylor & Parrotte, manu- 
facturers and jobbers of hats, caps, etc., 180-186 Market St., 
Chicago; residence, Windermere Hotel, Chicago, and Buford, 
Col. (150) 
Ray, Anna Parrotte, Kearney, Neb. (314) 

Ray, Mrs. George C. (Lydia Frances Parrotte), Kearney, Neb. 
(144) 

Ray, George Clinton, Jr., contractors' agent, 5 O'Reilly st., 
Havana, Cuba. (315) 

Ray, Mary Catherine, Kearney, Neb. (316) 

Ray, William Henry, 180 Market St., Chicago. (313) 

Scripps. Sister Anne Elizabeth, House of Mercy, Clewer, Berks, 
England. (37) 

Scripps, Arthur Frederick George, clerk, 52 Charlmont Road, 
Lower Tooting, Surrey, England. (273) 

Scripps, Charles Herbert, newspaper agent, 13 South Molton St., 
London; residence, 17 Norfolk Road, St. John's Wood, Lon- 
don. (269) 

Scripps, Charles Locke, advertising agent, Chicago; residence, 
522 Church St., Evanston, 111. (307) 

Scripps, Delia Sarah A., Rushville, 111. (99) 

Scripps, Earl Hudnall, 522 Church St., Evanston, 111. (310) 

Scripps. Edward Wyllis, fruit grower and newspaper proprietor, 
Miramar, San Diego Co., Cal., and Westchester, Ohio. (88) 

Scripps, Eliza, 5401 Jefferson ave., Chicago, 111. (134) 

Scripps. Eliza May, Rushville, 111. (105) 

Scripps, Eliza Virginia, Rushville, 111. (87) 

Scripps, Ellen Browning, South Molton Villa, La Jolla, San Diego 
Co., Cal. (80) 

Scripps, Ernest O'Hern, Portland, Ore. (161) 

Scripps, Frances Eliza, 2 Lionel Road, Bexhill, Sussex, Eng- 
land. (92) 

Scripps, Frederick Tudor, fruit grower, Pacific Beach, San Diego 
Co., Cal. (86) 

Scripps, George, mail order business, 5th ave., Chicago, 111. (133) 

Scripps, George Clarke, commercial reporter The Evening News, 
857 Humboldt ave., Detroit. (158) 

Scripps, George Farnworth, clerk, 52 Charlmont Road, Lower 
Tooting, Surrey. (95) 

Scripps, George Henry Little, merchant, Rushville, 111. (130) 
Scripps, George Mattice, bank clerk, 1175 Hudson ave., Detroit. 
(320) 



82 GENEALOGY OF THE 

Scripps, Harriet Jane, authoress, 2 Lionel Road, Bexhill, Sussex, 
England. (91) 

Scripps, Henrietta Duncan, Rushville, ill. (104) 
Scripps, Howard Ernest, clerk with Nelson, Baker & Co., phar- 
macists, Detroit. (323) 
Scripps, James Edmund, journalist, 598 Trumbull ave., Detroit. 

(79) 
Scripps, James George Osborn, manager Miramar ranch, San 

Diego Co., Cal. (249) 
Scripps, John, banker, Astoria, 111. (136) 
Scripps, John Locke, merchant, Rushville, 111. (129) 
Scripps, Mabel Ethelind, 522 Church st, Evanston, 111. (309) 
Scripps, Margaret Ethel, violinist, teacher Royal College of Music, 
17 Norfolk Road, St. John's Wood, London. (270) 

Scripps, Sarah Adele, stenographer, 857 Humboldt ave., Detroit. 
(321) 

Scripps, Thomas Cecil, stock broker, London. (98) 

Scripps, William, Astoria, 111. (132) 

Scripps, William Armiger, fruit grower, Altadena, Cal. (81) 

Scripps, William Edmund, circulation manager, The Evening 

News, Detroit; residence, 598 Trumbull ave. (243) 
Scripps, William Henry, solicitor, Canterbury, England. (97) 
Scripps, William Hiler, banker, Astoria, 111. (45) 
Scripps, Winter, 6221 Monroe ave., Chicago, 111. (137) 

Sharp, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary (Scripps), 422 Twenty-first St., San 
Diego, Cal. (77) 

Sharp, Thomas Enoch, care Mrs. Annie McKnight, 7 Columbia 
St., Cumberland, Md. (394) 

Southwick, James Scripps, 311 Hancock ave. west, Detroit. (326) 

Speed, Mrs. Ellen (Scripps), Rushville, 111. (42) 

Speed, William Henry Scripps, manager, Evening World, Balti- 
more, Md. (122) 

Sweeney, Mrs. Chai-les H. (Penelope Jane Maria Scripps), 1314 

Locust st., Des Moines, Iowa. (43) 
Sweeney, Cleon Fleece, circulation manager, Evening Record, 

Los Angeles, Cal. (119) 
Sweeney, John Scripps, newspaper proprietor, 42 Forest ave. 

east, Detroit. (120) 
Tudor, Alice M., Prince Edward Mansions, Bayswater, London. 

(192) 

Tudor, Catherine, St. John's Hospice, Kilburn, London. (187) 
Tudor, Edith. (197) 



SCRIPPS FAMILY 83 

Tudor, Edward Scripps, merchant, 17 College Hill, E. C, London; 
residence, Shortlands, Kent. (60) 

Tudor, Elizabeth, Prince Edward Mansions, Bayswater, London. 
(195) 

Tudor, Frederick E. (199) 

Tudor, Geoffrey W., Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. (194) 

Tudor, Gwendoline. (198) 

Tudor, Harry, Moore & Tudor, importers, Buenos Ayres, Argen- 
tina. (189) 

Tudor, Mary Dorothea. (196) 

Tudor, Owen Scripps, South American merchant, 24 College St., 
London, E. C; residence, Prince Edward Mansions, Bays- 
water, London. (63) 

Tudor, Philip S., Sutton-on-Hill, Yorkshire, England. (190) 

Tudor, Robert E., Buenos Ayres, Argentina. (193) 

Tudor, William Scripps, merchant, 17 College Hill, London, E. 
C; residence, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. (64) 

Vickerman, Mrs. James W. (Grace Virginia Deacon), Brooklyn, 
N. Y. (203) 

West, Frances Eliza, Des Moines, Iowa. (282) 
West, Mrs. Harry (Mary E. Chase), Des Moines, Iowa. (112) 
Whitcomb, Mrs. Edgar B. (Anna Virginia Scripps), 40 Pitcher 
St., Detroit. (239) 



INDEX 



Page 

Alfred the Great 40 

Allison, George 65 

Alliteration in names, singu- 
lar example 28 

Andersonville Prison 43 

Anneke Jans claim 70 

Antisdel family 45 

Armstrong, George B 31 

Arnold pedigree 53 

Bagby , Albert Morris 62 

Bagby ancestry 35 

Bagby, John C 35 

Bagby, John S 61 

Bailey, John A 75 

Barkway Scrippses 7 

Battle of Sink Hole 17 

Beebee, F. H 50 

Bent, Harry 74 

Billmeyer, H. N 6S 

Black Hawk 17 

Blades, Paul 61 

Blanchard, Seth 31 

Boer war 67 

Bonar, Rev. Horatius 25 

Booth, George G 68 

Booth, H. W 69 

Booth pedigree 69 

Boyd, Alfred B. P 63 

Bristol riots of 1831 24 

Brooks, Rt. Rev. Phillips, 

folder opp. 44 

Cape Girardeau 15 

Cerdic, King of Wessex 39 

Chandos, Duke of 12 

Chapman, Susannah 9 

Charlesworth, Alice 63 

Charlesworth, Jesse T 36 

Chase, Bishop Philander 27 

Chase, Charles R 50 

Chase, Chief Justice S. P.... 27 



Page 

Chase, Edmund C 51 

Chase, Edmund P 27 

Chase, John W 50 

Chase pedigree 27 

Chase. William Henry S 51 

Chase, William P 51 

Chicago Tribune 31, 44 

Ohicamauga, Battle of 43 

Clark pedigree 71 

Clark, Rex B 71 

Clarke, Adam 34 

Clarke, Albert B 56 

Clarke pedigree 34 

Clarke, Rev. John 34 

Clewer Sisterhood 25 

Conant, Gov. Roger, 

folder 3, opp. 44 

Conger, Minister Edwin H... 74 

Connaught, Duke of 48 

Corley, Dexter W 52 

Corrie, Agnes 16 

Coyne, John Francis 65 

Cranbrook Press 69 

Cripps, the original of the 

name 5 

Deacon, Albert 67 

Deacon, Alfred 38 

Deacon, Alfred H 64 

Deacon, Arthur 38 

Deacon, Arthur Richard 65 

Deacon, Arthur W. S 64 

Deacon, Catherine A 42 

Deacon, George Hitge 67 

Deacon, Grace 39 

Deacon, Mary 38 

Deacon, Octavius D 39 

Deacon, Owen B 66 

Deacon, Robert T 66 

Deacon, Samuel 19, 20 

Deacon, Samuel A 41 



86 



Index 



Page 

Deacon, Virginia 38 

Deacon, William George 75 

Deacon, William S 37 

Deacon, Willoughby 67 

Deane, George 74 

Detroit Museum of Art 44 

Dixie family 1* 

Downey, John J 72 

Downey pedigree 72 

Dyche, Frank B 55 

Dyson, Edwin 66 

Egbert the Great 10 

Ellis, Griffith Ogden 73 

Elmore, Herbert F. H 64 

Elmore pedigree 64 

Ely cathedral 9 

Ely, the home of the family.. 5 

Empress Dowager of China... 74 

Everett, Edward. ..folder opp. 44 

Farnworth pedigree 21 

Farraday, Michael 20 

Forrest, Gen. N. B 30 

French, Edward 36 

Fuller, Andrew 20 

Gardner, Charles 48 

Gardner pedigree 48 

Gardner, Rev. Charles G 73 

Gorton, Samuel 60 

Grable, Francis C 75 

Gray, Rev. Calvin 54 

Gregg pedigree 75 

Grove pedigree 37 

Guy, Basil 63 

Guy, Edward T. B 62 

Hagans, John Marshall 12 

Harris family 66 

Hayes, Mrs. President 13 

Hemphill, Frank L 50 

Henniker. Sir John 12 

Hitge family 42 

Holtsinger pedigree 47 

Horncastle pedigree 39 

Houston, John L 50 

Howell, William Shaw 53 

Hull, Col. John A 74 

Huntingdon, Lady 22 

Jackson ancestry, folder 3, opp. 44 

Jenner, Dr. Edward 22 

Kellogg, Frederick W 73 

King Philip's War, 

folder 3, opp. 44 



Kirkcudbright 16 

Lethbridge, Sir Henry 22 

Lewis, Charles 23 

Lewis, Gen. Andrew 5S 

Lewis, John 57 

Libby prison 43 

Lincoln, Abraham 31 

Liszt, Franz 62 

Literary Gazette 14 

Little, George 30, 33, 34 

Locke, Grace 10, 12 

Locke, John 12 

Lookout Mountain 61 

McAllister, William H 55 

MoFadden, E. R 52 

McFadden pedigree 52 

Mclntyre, S. P 57 

McKendree, Bishop 16 

Madison, President James 57 

Mails, distribution of, on cars 31 

Major, Joanna 11 

Major, Sir John 11 

Mann, Horace folder opp. 44 

Mattice pedigree 59 

Messinger pedigree, folder opp. 44 
Missouri Constitutional Con- 
vention 1? 

Moore, Sir John 48 

Morgantown I 2 

Moschelles 48 

Murder of Benjamin Scripps.. 15 

Osborn, Julia A 23 

Parrotte, Charles S 58 

Parrotte, George W 55 

Parrotte, Josiah 31 

Parrotte, Josiah L 56 

Parrotte, Lewis W 57 

Parrotte, Marcus L 58 

Parrotte, Walter L 58 

Patterson pedigree 53 

Pear, John and Mary 10 

Pearson, Anthony 10 

Peirce pedigree 46 

Plowright, Sarah 8 

Porter, Admiral David D 11 

Prairie Telegraph 32 

Radcliffe pedigree 40 

Ray, George C 56 

Rogers, John, Martyr, 

folder opp. 44 

Rubridge pedigree 67 



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Rushville newspapers 32 

Sabey, Elizabeth 21 

Sandeman, Robert 20 

Saunders, Ellen Mary 21,22 

Saunders, George L 22 

Schuyler Citizen 32 

Scripps, Benjamin 15 

Scripps, Benjamin F 32 

Scripps, Charles P 49 

Scripps, Edward W 47 

Scripps, Ellen Browning 44 

Scripps, Ernest O'H 59 

Scripps, First instance of the 

name 5 

Scripps, Frederick T 46 

Scripps, George B 55 

Scripps, George C 5S 

Scripps, George F 49 

Scripps, George Henry 1st 17 

Scripps, George Henry 2d 45 

Scripps, George H. L 53 

Scripps, George M 75 

Scripps, George Washington.. 33 

Scripps, Harriet Jane 48 

Scripps, James E 44 

Scripps, James Mogg 21,23 

Scripps, John 54 

Scripps, John Corrie Talbot.. 26 

Scripps, John Dixie 23 

Scripps, John Locke 31 

Scripps, John Locke 2d 53 

Scripps, John Mogg 45 

Scripps, Julia Anne 46 

Scripps, Nancy 17 

Scripps, Rev. Charles Herman 59 

Scripps, Rev. John 15,16 

Scripps, Robert 1st 6 

Scripps, Robert 2d 7 

Scripps, Sister Anne Eliza- 
beth 25 

Scripps, Thomas 1st 5 

Scripps, Thomas 21 

Scripps, "William 1st 8 

Scripps, William 2d 10 

Scripps, William 5i 

Scripps, William Armiger 1st. 14 

Scripps, William Armiger 2d.. 45 

Scripps, William E 71 

Scripps, William Henry 49 



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Scripps, William H. B 30 

Scripps, William Hiler 30 

Scripps, William Locke 34 

Scripps, William Washington 19 

Scripps, Winter 54 

Sharp, E. D. T 43 

Sharp. Jesse J 68 

Sharp pedigree 43 

Shaw, Gov. Leslie M 74 

South wick pedigree 60 

Southwick William D 60 

Speed, Dr. Joshua N 29 

Speed pedigree 29 

Sudbury, Battle of, 

folder 3, opp. 44 

Sun, London Daily 14 

Sweeney, Charles H 29 

Sweeney, Cleon F 51 

Sweeney, John S 52 

Sweeney, Joshua M 28 

Sweeney pedigree 28 

Taylor, President Zachary 57 

Topcliffe, Mary 11 

Trinity Church, New York 71 

Trinity Reformed Episcopal 

Church 44 

Truett family 26 

Tuck family 38 

Tudor, Edward Scripps 36 

Tudor, Frederick S 37 

Tudor, Harry 63 

Tudor, Owen Scripps 36 

Tudor, Philip Scripps 63 

Tudor Samuel 19 

Tudor. William Scripps 37 

Vickerman, James W 65 

Warren ancestry, folder 2, opp. 44 

Washington, Gen. George 11 

Webster, Daniel 28 

Wesley, Samuel 4S 

West, Frances E 74 

West, Harry 51 

Westfleld, Mary 6 

Whitcomb, Edgar B 70 

Whitcomb pedigree 70 

Wigglesworth, Michael, , 

folder opp. 44 

William, Prince of Orange 70 

Woden. Norse divinity 39 

Worthington pedigree 57 



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